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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-03-07 09:59:54 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-03-07 09:59:55 +0900
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Merge branch 'jc/test-yes-doc'
Test doc update. * jc/test-yes-doc: test: caution on our version of 'yes'
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fi
fi
-# Provide an implementation of the 'yes' utility
+# Provide an implementation of the 'yes' utility; the upper bound
+# limit is there to help Windows that cannot stop this loop from
+# wasting cycles when the downstream stops reading, so do not be
+# tempted to turn it into an infinite loop. cf. 6129c930 ("test-lib:
+# limit the output of the yes utility", 2016-02-02)
yes () {
if test $# = 0
then