From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:56:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mingw: workaround for hangs when sending STDIN
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In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQWMvBi4vkAFMjV7LWjKJudja08ZqVMNfLfALxbBfpzXg@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> ... For instance, t1050-large.sh uses:
>
>     printf "%2000000s" X >large1 &&
>
> which is plenty portable and (presumably) doesn't have such demanding
> memory consumption.

Yes, I had the exact same reaction to echoing large string with
literal backslash-en in it ;-)  Thanks for reviewing and teaching.