I have now run every test script <= t9001 using the current 'master' on
the SunOS 5.8 box available to me. It _mostly_ passed. Following are
three patches:

  1/3: git_config_*: don't assume we are parsing a config file

       This is an actual minor bug which was covered by most platforms'
       ability to print (null) for NULL. I posted this earlier, but with
       a typo.

  2/3: t3404: use configured shell instead of /bin/sh

       This is a problem purely in the test script, not git itself.

  3/3: diff: fix java funcname pattern for solaris

       This is a Solaris-specific bug in git.

With these fixes, everything passes for me with a few exceptions:

  - Sun's diff doesn't understand "-u". I was able to use GNU diff.
    Since comparing actual and expected output is so common, we could
    potentially abstract this with a "test_cmp()" function and use
    something platform specific. It's probably not worth the trouble, as
    it impacts only the test suite, and only on systems with a totally
    broken diff.

  - t4020 fails without gnu grep, as it requires "grep -a"

  - t4024 fails unless /usr/xpg4/bin is in your path, as the regular
    version of 'expr' is unhappy with us (I didn't investigate too
    closely)

  - t4118, t4200, t8001, and t8002 fail unless you have GNU sed. The
    xpg4 sed barfs if there's no newline at the end of input (and this
    is specifically part of these tests)

  - I couldn't personally run t5502, t5505, t5512, t5520, or t9001, all
    of which require the Git.pm module; the version of perl on this
    machine is old (5.005_02) and complained about the 'our' keyword

  - t7505 uses a hook which hard-codes /bin/sh but uses syntax that
    the Solaris /bin/sh doesn't like. Maybe hooks should get their
    $SHELL value replaced?

  - t3900 mostly passes, but fails to correctly convert between EUCJP
    and ISO-2022-JP (in either direction). I didn't investigate very
    far.

  - git-filter-branch invokes "sh" for the commit filter, which invokes
    the broken Solaris /bin/sh. This isn't wrong, exactly, but it might
    make more sense to invoke $SHELL.

Now I must go gouge out my eyes, so that I may never see the output of
Solaris /bin/sh ever again.

-Peff
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