Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/6?] t4012: use 'printf' instead of 'dd' to generate a binary file

From: Alexander Strasser <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:25:40 +0200

Hi, 

Johannes Sixt wrote:
> From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
> 
> For some reason, 'echo X | dd bs=1k seek=1' creates a file with 2050 bytes
> on Windows instead of the expected 1026 bytes, so that a test fails. Since
> the actual contents of the file are irrelevant as long as there is at
> least one zero byte so that the diff machinery recognizes it as binary,
> use printf to generate it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  While the focus is on t4012, maybe you can add this patch to the series.

  Your patch looks good to me and works here. If I hear no
objections I will include it as number 7 when resending this
series.

  Alexander

>  t/t4012-diff-binary.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh b/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh
> index 6cebb39..8c018ab 100755
> --- a/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh
> +++ b/t/t4012-diff-binary.sh
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ cat >expect <<EOF
>  EOF
>  
>  test_expect_success 'diff --stat with binary files and big change count' '
> -	echo X | dd of=binfile bs=1k seek=1 &&
> +	printf "\01\00%1024d" 1 >binfile &&
>  	git add binfile &&
>  	i=0 &&
>  	while test $i -lt 10000; do
> -- 
> 1.7.11.1.1304.g11834c6