From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:12:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Workaround for strange cmp bug Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v3bc65gk0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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. > 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