Re: Re* [PATCH] tests: replace mingw_test_cmp with a helper in C

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2022, 00:03 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4jxispe9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <22402f5d-c463-acee-f57d-e507f23822ca@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

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> This test passes even without the changes to diff-no-index.c above.
> Because diff.c::diff_fill_oid_info() sets an all-zero object ID for
> stdin on both sides, I guess, so the comparison is skipped even though
> the data is read already for the first dash and the data size of the
> second one is thus zero?

OK, that sounds like a happy accident ;-)

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