Am 04.06.2014 13:42, schrieb Stepan Kasal: > test_cmp() is primarily meant to compare text files (and display the > difference for debug purposes). > > Raw "cmp" is better suited to compare binary files (tar, zip, etc.). > > On MinGW, test_cmp is a shell function mingw_test_cmp that tries to > read both files into environment, stripping CR characters (introduced > in commit 4d715ac0). > > This function usually speeds things up, as fork is extremly slow on > Windows. But no wonder that this function is extremely slow and > sometimes even crashes when comparing large tar or zip files. > > Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx> > --- > t/t5000-tar-tree.sh | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- > t/t5001-archive-attr.sh | 2 +- > t/t5003-archive-zip.sh | 6 +++--- > t/t5004-archive-corner-cases.sh | 2 +- > 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh > index 1cf0a4e..31b1fd1 100755 > --- a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh > +++ b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh > @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ check_tar with_olde-prefix olde- > test_expect_success 'git archive on large files' ' > test_config core.bigfilethreshold 1 && > git archive HEAD >b3.tar && > - test_cmp b.tar b3.tar > + cmp b.tar b3.tar > ' Wouldn't a function like test_cmp_bin() be better suited for all? The windows folks can then use cmp inside test_cmp_bin() and all others just use test_cmp. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html