Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] t4200: avoid passing a non-newline terminated file to sed

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 09:26:28 +0200

Brandon Casey schrieb:
> Some versions of sed exit non-zero if the file they are supplied is not
> newline terminated.  Solaris's /usr/xpg4/bin/sed is one such sed.  So
> rework this test to avoid doing so.
> ---
>  t/t4200-rerere.sh |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/t/t4200-rerere.sh b/t/t4200-rerere.sh
> index b68ab11..48dbd8e 100755
> --- a/t/t4200-rerere.sh
> +++ b/t/t4200-rerere.sh
> @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ test_expect_success 'file2 added differently in two branches' '
>  	git add file2 &&
>  	git commit -m version2 &&
>  	test_must_fail git merge fourth &&
> -	sha1=$(sed -e "s/	.*//" .git/MERGE_RR) &&
> +	sha1=$({ cat .git/MERGE_RR; echo; } | sed -e "s/	.*//") &&

Couldn't that line become

	sha1=$(cat .git/MERGE_RR) &&
	sha1=%{sha1%%	*} &&

(a literal tab before the '*')?

-- Hannes