Re: [PATCH v5 01/15] fast-export: avoid importing blob marks

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2012, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbof2k96j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121111163827.GA11408@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> Major issue:  "echo -n" is still not portable.
>> 
>> Could we simply use
>> 
>> touch  marks-cur  &&
>> touch marks-new
>
> Yes, "echo -n" is definitely not portable.  Our preferred way of
> creating an empty file is just ">file".

Yes.

And it is misleading to use "touch" in this case; unless you are updating the timestamp of an existing file while preserving the contents of it, please don't use the command.

Thanks.

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