Re: [PATCH] Workaround for strange cmp bug

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The cmp(1) (cmp (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7) distributed with openSUSE 10.1 has
a subtle "shortcoming":

Okay, I will try to fix the distribution. I only thought it was worthwhile 
spreading the workaround for other poor souls.

It actually is very useful, in the chain of &&, to see that
these steps in our tests output something when they shouldn't
when the tests are run under -v; you may have noticed that the
tests written by me have seemingly useless "echo happy" (which
always returns true) and such, and they are there for a reason.

Well, I found myself stuck with too many of hard-to-debug cascades, where 
there is no "echo happy". I think that you are lost with most test 
scripts, if you do not use "bash -x".

Ciao,
Dscho