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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
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Subject: Re: [Breakage] Git v2.21.0-rc0 - t5318 (NonStop)
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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.