Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] t0612: add tests to exercise Git/JGit reftable compatibility

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 09:07:32 -0700

Eric Sunshine <[email-masked]> writes:

> I was going to suggest that you could accomplish this more easily
> directly in shell (without employing `awk`):
>
>     {
>         echo start &&
>         printf "create refs/heads/branch-%d HEAD\n" $(test_seq 0 9999) &&
>         echo commit
>     } >input &&
>
> but then I realized that that could potentially run afoul of
> command-line length limit on some platform due to the 0-9999 sequence.

As xargs is supposed to know the system limit, perhaps

	test_seq 0 9999 | xargs printf "...%d...\n"

should work?