Re: [PATCH 5/9] update-index: add --checkout/--no-checkout to update CE_NO_CHECKOUT bit

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:04:05AM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

quoted

+test_expect_success 'setup' '
+	mkdir sub &&
+	touch 1 2 sub/1 sub/2 &&
+	git add 1 2 sub/1 sub/2

Mind-boggling, but this manages to break on Solaris. Fix is
below.

I tend to avoid "touch", not specifically for this reason, but surely this
is another reason why ">sub/1" is much better way to create a throw-away
file ;-)

Note that this has implications for 'touch "$FOO" "$BAR"'
used in scripts if FOO might be entirely numeric. However, a
quick grep shows we usually touch one file at a time.

You can always do:

	: >>"$FOO"