"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > We only care about getting what should be an empty string and > sending it to a file, without a trailing LF, so the empty string > translates into a 0 byte file. Earlier when I originally wrote > these lines Mac OS X allowed the format string of printf to be > the empty string, but more recent versions appear to have been > 'improved' with error messages if the format is not given. That sounds like a bug to me. > diff --git a/t/t5401-update-hooks.sh b/t/t5401-update-hooks.sh > index 3eea306..9734fc5 100755 > --- a/t/t5401-update-hooks.sh > +++ b/t/t5401-update-hooks.sh > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ test_expect_success setup ' > > cat >victim/.git/hooks/pre-receive <<'EOF' > #!/bin/sh > -printf "$@" >>$GIT_DIR/pre-receive.args > +printf %s "$@" >>$GIT_DIR/pre-receive.args Do you really mean this? "printf %s 1 2 3" writes "123" without terminating LF. You seem to check only for size but to be reusable you might want to use something like: printf '%s\n' "$@" Likewise for post-receive.args. - 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