Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] t0612: add tests to exercise Git/JGit reftable compatibility

> On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 12:07 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> > > I was going to suggest that you could accomplish this more easily
> > > directly in shell (without employing `awk`):
> > >
> > >     {
> > >         echo start &&
> > >         printf "create refs/heads/branch-%d HEAD\n" $(test_seq 0 9999) &&
> > >         echo commit
> > >     } >input &&
> > >
> > > but then I realized that that could potentially run afoul of
> > > command-line length limit on some platform due to the 0-9999 sequence.
> >
> > As xargs is supposed to know the system limit, perhaps
> >
> >         test_seq 0 9999 | xargs printf "...%d...\n"
> >
> > should work?
>
> Hmm, yes, that should work nicely.
>
> Whether or not such a change is worthwhile is a different matter.
> Although it is perhaps simpler and easier to read, Windows folk might
> not appreciate it since it spawns at least three processes (and
> perhaps more depending upon how test_seq is implemented), whereas the
> `awk` approach spawns a single process.