Re: [PATCH] Workaround for strange cmp bug

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 9, 2006, 11:12 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608091309590.1800@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bc65gk0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > The cmp(1) (cmp (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7) distributed with openSUSE 10.1 has
> > a subtle "shortcoming":

Okay, I will try to fix the distribution. I only thought it was worthwhile spreading the workaround for other poor souls.

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> It actually is very useful, in the chain of &&, to see that
> these steps in our tests output something when they shouldn't
> when the tests are run under -v; you may have noticed that the
> tests written by me have seemingly useless "echo happy" (which
> always returns true) and such, and they are there for a reason.

Well, I found myself stuck with too many of hard-to-debug cascades, where there is no "echo happy". I think that you are lost with most test scripts, if you do not use "bash -x".

Ciao, Dscho