From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:44:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/15] fast-export: avoid importing blob marks
Message-ID: <7vbof2k96j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121111163827.GA11408@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> 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.