From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:59:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit
Message-ID: <7vk5b0vp19.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081118113316.GA18610@segfault.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:04:05AM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
>
>> +test_expect_success 'setup' '
>> +	mkdir sub &&
>> +	touch 1 2 sub/1 sub/2 &&
>> +	git add 1 2 sub/1 sub/2
>
> Mind-boggling, but this manages to break on Solaris. Fix is
> below.

I tend to avoid "touch", not specifically for this reason, but surely this
is another reason why ">sub/1" is much better way to create a throw-away
file ;-)

> Note that this has implications for 'touch "$FOO" "$BAR"'
> used in scripts if FOO might be entirely numeric. However, a
> quick grep shows we usually touch one file at a time.

You can always do:

	: >>"$FOO"