On 08.05.16 04:21, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > >> That's true, but the test passes anyway. > You can also remove the body of the test and replace it with "true" > and say "the test passes anyway". Changing the test to use a file > with only one line is irresponsible, if you do not know the nature > of expected future bug that requires 10 lines to be there to > manifest that the test wants to try. > > test_seq was invented exactly for the purpose of accomodating > platforms that lack seq, so using it would probably be the best > first step. Updating implementation of test_seq to avoid $PERL > would be a separate step, if desired (I personally do not think > that is worth it). We don't need to invoke perl, when the shell can do that internally ? May a simple printf "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n" be an option ? -- 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