Subject: Re: [PATCH] t5319: don't trip over a user name with whitespace

From: SZEDER Gábor <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 13:33:04 +0200

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:16:02AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> I see Gábor suggested using "wc -c" elsewhere in the thread. That would
> be fine with me, too, though I think the required sed there may be
> getting pretty unreadable, too. :)

It could be done even without 'sed', though at the expense of running
a coupe more 'wc -c's in a loop:

diff --git a/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh b/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
index 79bfaeafa9..bacec5e2e4 100755
--- a/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
+++ b/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
@@ -443,7 +443,12 @@ test_expect_success 'repack with minimum size does not alter existing packs' '
 		touch -m -t 201901010002 .git/objects/pack/pack-B* &&
 		touch -m -t 201901010003 .git/objects/pack/pack-A* &&
 		ls .git/objects/pack >expect &&
-		MINSIZE=$(ls -l .git/objects/pack/*pack | awk "{print \$5;}" | sort -n | head -n 1) &&
+		MINSIZE=$(
+			for pack in .git/objects/pack/*pack
+			do
+				wc -c <"$pack"
+			done | sort -n | head -n 1
+		) &&
 		git multi-pack-index repack --batch-size=$MINSIZE &&
 		ls .git/objects/pack >actual &&
 		test_cmp expect actual
@@ -455,7 +460,12 @@ test_expect_success 'repack creates a new pack' '
 		cd dup &&
 		ls .git/objects/pack/*idx >idx-list &&
 		test_line_count = 5 idx-list &&
-		THIRD_SMALLEST_SIZE=$(ls -l .git/objects/pack/*pack | awk "{print \$5;}" | sort -n | head -n 3 | tail -n 1) &&
+		THIRD_SMALLEST_SIZE=$(
+			for pack in .git/objects/pack/*pack
+			do
+				wc -c <"$pack"
+			done | sort -n | head -n 3 | tail -n 1
+		) &&
 		BATCH_SIZE=$(($THIRD_SMALLEST_SIZE + 1)) &&
 		git multi-pack-index repack --batch-size=$BATCH_SIZE &&
 		ls .git/objects/pack/*idx >idx-list &&

Is it really better?  Dunno, but at least there is no subtlety with
the leading padding spaces.