Re: [PATCH 4/4] t4200: avoid passing a non-newline terminated file to sed

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Some versions of sed exit non-zero if the file they are supplied is not
newline terminated.  Solaris's /usr/xpg4/bin/sed is one such sed.  So
rework this test to avoid doing so.

I think up to your 3/4 is reasonable, but this is not enough for POSIX
conformance (it is Ok if it is just aiming to fix "Solaris quirk").  POSIX
sed is only required to work on text files, but .git/MERGE_RR is not a
text file (it is a sequence of NUL terminated records).

I think something like this may work better.  Can somebody test?

quoted

-	sha1=$(sed -e "s/	.*//" .git/MERGE_RR) &&
+	sha1=$({ cat .git/MERGE_RR; echo; } | sed -e "s/	.*//") &&

	sha1=$(tr "\\000" "\\012" <./git/MERGE_RR | sed -e "s/	.*//") &&

I was about to reply that this fix works fine (actually, I was about to
reply over an hour ago but was interrupted).

But, while testing it I noticed that you had a typo in your version that
_did_not_ cause the test to fail.  You have an extra slash in the path
to '.git/MERGE_RR' which would have caused sha1 to be unset.

The 'sha1' variable that is set here on line 193 is used on the next line
to set 'rr', but 'rr' is never used again.  Unless I'm missing something,
it appears these two lines can be deleted.

-brandon