From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
'Linux Kernel' <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
git-packagers@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:31:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlg2qjcw0.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0694f2f1-040a-1d8c-cd01-2cf51cdbe426@kdbg.org> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Fri, 8 Feb 2019 19:29:33 +0100")
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> If the data does not have to be a sequence of zero bytes, the
> alternatives are:
>
> * `test-genrandom seed-string $size` for a sequence of reproducible
> "random" bytes
>
> * `printf "%0*d" $size 0` for a sequence of '0' characters.
>
> In t5318, the zero bytes do matter, though.
Also some consumers of these bytes may not be easy to read from a
pipe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-08 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-08 11:08 [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop) Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 16:50 ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 17:49 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 18:03 ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 18:29 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-08 19:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-02-08 18:47 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 19:15 ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 19:26 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 19:31 ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 20:38 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 22:07 ` brian m. carlson
2019-02-08 22:12 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 22:18 ` brian m. carlson
2019-02-08 22:36 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-08 22:35 ` Jeff King
2019-02-08 22:53 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-09 4:24 ` Jeff King
2019-02-09 8:39 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-09 16:55 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-09 23:29 ` Jeff King
2019-02-10 9:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-02-09 16:53 ` Randall S. Becker
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