From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:22:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] t0612: add tests to exercise Git/JGit reftable compatibility
Message-ID: <ZhQZsq5_NyXmWM-b@tanuki>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpluzet2z.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 09:07:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano 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?

Is there a reason why we want to avoid using awk(1) in the first place?
We use it in several other tests and I don't think that the resulting
code is all that bad.

Patrick