From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:07:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] t0612: add tests to exercise Git/JGit reftable compatibility
Message-ID: <xmqqpluzet2z.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cT3kvvHL+wLTFj58e5BnB7yBA=HD3C4vWC4zQhys3GCHA@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> 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?