Re: [PATCH] t/t7300: workaround ancient touch by rearranging arguments

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:58:22PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

From: Brandon Casey <redacted>

The ancient touch on Solaris 7 thinks that a decimal number supplied as
the first argument specifies a date_time to give to the files specified by
the remaining arguments.  In this case, it fails to parse '1' as a proper
date_time and exits with a failure status.  Workaround this flaw by
rearranging the arguments supplied to touch so that a non-digit appears
first and touch will not be confused.

Hmm, this seemed eerily familiar, and sure enough:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/101270

I don't _think_ I had Solaris 7 anytime recently, so the issue may be
even more widespread (I would guess that my patch was a result of
Solaris 8). Anyway, good catch.

-Peff