On 20.08.18 00:10, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 5:57 PM brian m. carlson > <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 04:10:21PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:54 PM brian m. carlson >>>> - tr '\015\000abcdef0123456789' QN00000000000000000 <"$2" >"$exp" && >>>> + tr '\015\000abcdef0123456789' QN00000000000000000 <"$2" >"$exp+" && >>> >>> My immediate thought upon reading this was whether "+" is valid in >>> Windows filenames. Apparently, it is, but perhaps (if you re-roll) it >>> would make sense to use a character less likely to cause brain >>> hiccups; for instance, "exp0'. >> >> The reason I picked that is that we use it quite a bit in the Makefile, >> so it seemed like an obvious choice for a temporary file name. If you >> feel strongly I can pick something else, but I thought it would be >> reasonably intuitive for other developers. Maybe I was wrong, though. > > I don't feel strongly about it. My brain tripped over it probably > because it's not an idiom in Git tests. In fact, I see just one place > where "+" has been used like this, in t6026. > Probably "tmp" is a better name than "exp+" (Why the '+' ? Is it better that the non-'+' ?) Anyway, If we re-order a little bit, can we use a simple '|' instead ? tr '\015\000abcdef0123456789' QN00000000000000000 <"$2" | sed -e "s/0000+/$ZERO_OID/" >"$exp" && tr '\015\000abcdef0123456789' QN00000000000000000 <"$3" >"$act" &&