Subject: Re: t9350-fast-export.sh broken on peff/pu under Mac OS X

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:19:21 +0100

On 11/11/2012 12:11 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>> The short version:
>>>> echo -n doesn't seem to be portable.
>>>> The following works for me:
>>>
>>> Right, I was supposed to change that to:
>>>
>>>   true > marks-cur &&
>>
>> Please make it like so:
>>
>>         >marks-cur &&
>>
>> No command is necessary when creating an empty file or truncating an
>> existing file to empty, and no SP between redirection and its target.
> 
> That hangs on zsh (presumably waiting for stdin).
>
Unless you set:

    NULLCMD=:

early in your test script.

Or, to be extra-safe, you could steal this initialization code from
autoconf:

    # Be more Bourne compatible.
    if test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && (emulate sh) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
      emulate sh
      NULLCMD=:
      setopt NO_GLOB_SUBST
      # Pre-4.2 versions of Zsh do word splitting on ${1+"$@"}, which
      # is contrary to our usage.  Disable this feature.
      alias -g '${1+"$@"}'='"$@"'
    else
      case `(set -o) 2>/dev/null` in *posix*) set -o posix ;; esac
    fi

All of this untested with the real Git testsuite, of course ;-)

Regards, and HTH,
  Stefano