Re: [PATCH] bundle: fix wrong check of read_header()'s return value & add tests

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2007, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0703080558ye4cff44l88eb88d4911222a0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703081405310.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 3/8/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > +     (
> > +             while read x && test -n "$x"
> > +             do
> > +                     :;
> > +             done
> > +             cat
> > +     ) <bundle1 >bundle.pack &&
>
> I tried to avoid that, because it was mentioned that this does not work on
> Cygwin for some reason I forgot.
>

Can't think of a reason why it would not. Just tried: works. It works even with \r\n line endings (which I don't understand).