On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 04:09:05AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:52 PM, brian m. carlson
> <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> >  test_expect_success 'lookup with almost duplicate values' '
> > +       # n-1 5s
> > +       root=$(test_translate 555555555555555555555555555555555555555 \
> > +               555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555) &&
> 
> This is rather unwieldy and ugly. How about simply re-using echoid()
> to compute the value, like this:
> 
>     root=$(echoid "" 55) &&
>     root=${root%5} &&
> 
> That is, use echoid() to generate the all-5's OID of correct length
> and then chop the last '5' off the end.

Sure, that would be nicer.
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