Re: [PATCH] tests: remove xargs in favor of --stdin where possible

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2009/4/23 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Patch "Convert to use quiet option when available" reminds me I had a similar
>>  patch to remove (mostly) xargs usage from tests.
>
> The reason being...?
>
>  (1) xargs is not universally available, or portable enough?
>
>  (2) people may learn from tests, and we should demostrate our ability?
>
>  (3) something else?

I worked on busybox win32 port, less commands meant less work for me. So (1).

> The tests may not break with your change because none of them may use
> problematic characters (especially "\n" and '"'), but update-index --stdin
> without -z is not suitable for reading from output from "find" without -0
> option (on the other hand, "update-index -z --stdin" is good for reading
> output from "find -0"; but for portability we avoid GNUism "find -0").

It can't be as safe as find -0| update-index -z, but it would be
equivalent to find|xargs, isn't it? Both separate arguments by \n.
-- 
Duy
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