Re: Hacks for AIX

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>>>     * /usr/bin/patch - really old version, doesn't do well with some
>>> diff formats.   I avoid using it.
>> t4109 seems to use patch to produce expected output for the tests; we
>> should ship a precomputed expected results.  Do you know of any other
>> places "patch" is used?
> 
> As usual, I won't commit this patch unless I hear from people who
> potentially would benefit from it.  I do not need such a patch myself and
> I really shouldn't be spending too much of my time on these.

> -- >8 --
> [PATCH] do not rely on external "patch" in tests
> 
> Some of our tests assumed a working "patch" command to produce expected
> results when checking "git-apply", but some systems have broken "patch".
> 
> We can compare our output with expected output that is precomputed
> instead to sidestep this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> ---
>  t/t4109-apply-multifrag.sh |  119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  t/t4110-apply-scan.sh      |   35 ++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t4109-apply-multifrag.sh b/t/t4109-apply-multifrag.sh
> index bd40a21..4805863 100755
> --- a/t/t4109-apply-multifrag.sh
> +++ b/t/t4109-apply-multifrag.sh
> @@ -138,39 +138,112 @@ diff --git a/main.c b/main.c