On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 09:57:15PM +0200, Michał Kiedrowicz wrote:
> Jeff King wrote:
>
> The seq command is GNU-ism, and is missing at least in older BSD
> releases and their derivatives, not to mention antique
> commercial Unixes.
>
> We already purged it in b3431bc (Don't use seq in tests, not
> everyone has it, 2007-05-02), but a few new instances have crept
> in. They went unnoticed because they are in scripts that are not
> run by default.
>
> This commit replaces them with test_seq that is implemented with a Perl
> snippet (proposed by Jeff). This is better than inlining this snippet
> everywhere it's needed because it's easier to read and it's easier to
> change the implementation (e.g. to C) if we ever decide to remove Perl
> from the test suite.
>
> Note that test_seq is not a complete replacement for seq(1). It just
> has what we need now.
>
> There are also many places that do `for i in 1 2 3 ...` but I'm not sure
> if it's worth converting them to test_seq. That would introduce running
> more processes of Perl during the tests and might increase the total
> time tests take.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@xxxxxxxxx>
Fine explanation, but...
> diff --git a/t/perf/perf-lib.sh b/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> index 5580c22..a1361e5 100644
> --- a/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> +++ b/t/perf/perf-lib.sh
> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ test_perf () {
> else
> echo "perf $test_count - $1:"
> fi
> - for i in $(seq 1 $GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT); do
> + for i in $(test_seq 1 $GIT_PERF_REPEAT_COUNT); do
Two args to test_seq, but...
> +# test_seq is a portable replacement for seq(1).
> +# It may be used like:
> +#
> +# for i in `test_seq 100`; do
> +# echo $i
> +# done
> +
> +test_seq () {
> + test $# = 1 ||
> + error "bug in the test script: not 1 parameter to test_seq"
> + last=$1
> + "$PERL_PATH" -le "print for 1..$last"
> +}
it wants only one.
I think you would want:
test $# = 1 && set -- 1 "$@"
"$PERL_PATH" -le "print for $1..$2"
It might also be worth quoting the parameters like this:
"$PERL_PATH" -le "print for '$1'..'$2'"
so that "test_seq a f" works, too.
-Peff
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