Messages in this thread | | | From | Junio C Hamano <> | Subject | Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop) | Date | Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:31:11 -0800 |
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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> If the data does not have to be a sequence of zero bytes, the > alternatives are: > > * `test-genrandom seed-string $size` for a sequence of reproducible > "random" bytes > > * `printf "%0*d" $size 0` for a sequence of '0' characters. > > In t5318, the zero bytes do matter, though.
Also some consumers of these bytes may not be easy to read from a pipe.
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