Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix t3404 assumption that `wc -l` does not use whitespace.

On Apr 28, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

BTW, how did you discover this bug? Through normal use, or was there a
failing test?

My small series of one-line patches were from trying to get t3404  
(IIRC) to work. So our tests do help. ;-)

If a failing test, then I wonder if we could get a few people to set  
up
automated tests on alternate platforms. IIRC, Junio makes sure that
master always passes test on his Linux box and KO (Debian and  
Redhat, I
think?). Other platforms could "git pull && make test" daily. I could
probably do Solaris (once I get the tests to complete pass at all!)  
and
FreeBSD 6.

I have a script that boils down to 'make && make test && make  
install'.  I pull, check changes, and then run it once or twice a  
week. I can't dedicate my laptop to automated testing, but I do raise  
a fuss when it fails.

A build farm would help, especially with simple portability errors  
like this. Would be good to get OS X, Solaris (our old nemesis), and a  
few variations for /bin/sh. But I don't really have a good machine to  
volunteer for the effort myself.

~~ Brian G.