Re: [PATCH] mingw: workaround for hangs when sending STDIN

>>     clogged while it's trying to deal with 8MB of STDIN. Such deadlocks
>>     could  be defeated with writing less then pipe's buffer size per
> 
> s/then/than/
> 
>>     of pending reads. Therefore, if buffer is bigger then size of reads,
> 
> s/then/than/
> 
>> +test_expect_success 'stash handles large files' '
>> +       printf "%1023s\n%.0s" "x" {1..16384} >large_file.txt &&
>> +       git stash push --include-untracked -- large_file.txt
>> +'
> 
> Use of {1..16384} is not portable across shells. You should be able to
> achieve something similar by assigning a really large value to a shell
> variable and then echoing that value to "large_file.txt". Something
> like:
> 
>      x=0123456789
>      x=$x$x$x$x$x$x$x$x$x$x
>      x=$x$x$x$x$x$x$x$x$x$x
>      ...and so on...
>      echo $x >large_file.txt &&
> 
> or any other similar construct.