Subject: Re: [PATCH] t1050-large: replace dd by test-genrandom

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:55:22 +0100

Am 13.01.2015 um 19:56 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]> writes:
>> The new code does change some properties of the generated files:
>>
>>  - They are a bit smaller.
>>  - They are not sparse anymore.
>>  - They do not compress well anymore.
>>  - The smaller of the four files is now a prefix of the larger.

Would you kindly strike the last bullet point when you apply the patch,
because it is not true, as I just noticed:

>> +	test-genrandom seed1 2000000 >large1 &&
...
>> +	test-genrandom seed2 2500000 >huge &&

The seeds are different so that the files are completely dissimilar.
This does not affect the rest of the analysis I gave in the commit message.

Thanks,
-- Hannes