Re: [PATCH] t/helper: 'test-chmtime (--get|-g)' to print only the mtime

Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu <ungureanupaulsebastian@gmail.com> writes:

You've sneaked this kind of rewrite in, as if you are testing to see how careful the reviewers are ;-).

We often use "find piped to xargs" pattern to avoid unbounded number of paths from appearing on a command line, busting platform limits. In the case of these test scripts, it does not matter very much, but such a "we can save a process and a pipe this way" optimization is not within the scope of "chmtime +v often is piped to sed only to strip path---let's give it a way to just grab the timestamp" topic. Not a very welcome change.

Having said that, I do not want this to be rerolled if this unrelated "removal of find-piped-to-xargs pattern" is the only niggle in the patch, as I've already checked if these conversions are safe (they are---we are not dealing with hundreds of stuff in .git/objects/ or .git/rr-cache/). There were conflicts caused by this patch and nd/combined-test-helper (which makes the test-chmtime standalone binary as a subcommand of test-tool); I think I resolved them correctly, but please double check when I update the public repositories in several hours.

Thanks.