"Chris Cowan" <chris.o.cowan@gmail.com> writes:

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>     * /usr/bin/grep - behaves badly in t7002.   I believe it is test
> 12 and related to the -n -w -e combination of options.

Perhaps your version of AIX needs to...

    $ make NO_EXTERNAL_GREP=UnfortunatelyYesOnThisAIX

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>     * /usr/bin/diff - has problems with -u and -U.
>                          I saw the $GIT_CMP_TEST env var, but this is
> not used everywhere within the test scripts above.
> In some cases, the tests could have been made more portable by using a
> plain "diff" rather than "diff -u", for example.

A patch to the testsuite to replace use of "diff" and "diff -u" that test
the actual output matches expected output with "test_cmp" would be
appreciated.

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>     * /usr/bin/patch - really old version, doesn't do well with some
> diff formats.   I avoid using it.

t4109 seems to use patch to produce expected output for the tests; we
should ship a precomputed expected results.  Do you know of any other
places "patch" is used?
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