Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] t0612: add tests to exercise Git/JGit reftable compatibility
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> I was going to suggest that you could accomplish this more easily
> directly in shell (without employing `awk`):
>
> {
> echo start &&
> printf "create refs/heads/branch-%d HEAD\n" $(test_seq 0 9999) &&
> echo commit
> } >input &&
>
> but then I realized that that could potentially run afoul of
> command-line length limit on some platform due to the 0-9999 sequence.As xargs is supposed to know the system limit, perhaps
test_seq 0 9999 | xargs printf "...%d...\n"
should work?