From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 20:27:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7701-repack-unpack-unreachable.sh: check timestamp of unpacked objects
Message-ID: <E8K6ZsektNV-bzzpBDDSjLUNAu6_Tgxq9EV2896g2zCI6VyLsESxXw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <OleexvYZfiSxUgrxHbDqLpGl2g7TsoOO7pwZXC1fiyL2KxKVuWLtWw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> drafnel@gmail.com writes:
>>
>>
>>> +	test -f "$fsha1path" -a ! "$fsha1path" -nt "$packfile" -a \
>>> +				! "$fsha1path" -ot "$packfile" &&
>>> +	test -f "$csha1path" -a ! "$csha1path" -nt "$packfile" -a \
>>> +				! "$csha1path" -ot "$packfile" &&
>>> +	test -f "$tsha1path" -a ! "$tsha1path" -nt "$packfile" -a \
>>> +				! "$tsha1path" -ot "$packfile"
>>> +'
>> "Test" primaries -nt/-ot are unfortunately excluded from POSIX.
> 
> hrmph, and it even worked on solaris ksh.

FYI, also works with dash, and there is a use of '-nt' in git-mergetool.sh
which is not exercised by the test suite.

Maybe I'll think about a perl version.

Also, do you have a url to your posix reference?

-brandon