From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:31:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)
Message-ID: <xmqqlg2qjcw0.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <0694f2f1-040a-1d8c-cd01-2cf51cdbe426@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> If the data does not have to be a sequence of zero bytes, the
> alternatives are:
>
> * `test-genrandom seed-string $size` for a sequence of reproducible
> "random" bytes
>
> * `printf "%0*d" $size 0` for a sequence of '0' characters.
>
> In t5318, the zero bytes do matter, though.

Also some consumers of these bytes may not be easy to read from a
pipe.