From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 15:33:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] t5303: test some corrupt deltas
Message-ID: <xmqqh8ja360p.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1808311155410.71@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> Would "echo base >base" give us 5-byte long base even on Windows?
>
> Please note that Unix shell scripting is a foreign thing on Windows. As
> such, there is not really any "native" shell we can use [*1*], and

Yeah, I know that; otherwise I wouldn't have asked.  Because ...

> therefore we use MSYS2's Bash which outputs Unix line endings.

... I didn't know what MSYS folks chose, and/or if you have chosen
to tweak their choice, and/or if you switched to somebody else's shell
(e.g. busybox) and/or you chose to tweak what they do out of the box,
it was worth asking and getting yes/no question.  You do not have to
tell me why I should be asking.

So instead of typing 3 lines, you can just say "yes we use echo that
emulates Unix".

Thanks.