t9300: factor out portable "head -c" replacement

diff --git a/t/lib-git-svn.sh b/t/lib-git-svn.sh
index c5e55b190bfbb06eef5a03d701b956e32ad22048..fb8823224e9ed2452c32e847bf53dbc4da116f1b 100644 (file)
--- a/t/lib-git-svn.sh
+++ b/t/lib-git-svn.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
-remotes_git_svn=remotes/git""-svn
-git_svn_id=git""-svn-id
-
 if test -n "$NO_SVN_TESTS"
 then
        skip_all='skipping git svn tests, NO_SVN_TESTS defined'
@@ -29,7 +26,7 @@ export svnrepo
 svnconf=$PWD/svnconf
 export svnconf
 
-"$PERL_PATH" -w -e "
+perl -w -e "
 use SVN::Core;
 use SVN::Repos;
 \$SVN::Core::VERSION gt '1.1.0' or exit(42);
@@ -146,7 +143,7 @@ stop_httpd () {
 }
 
 convert_to_rev_db () {
-       "$PERL_PATH" -w -- - "$@" <<\EOF
+       perl -w -- - "$@" <<\EOF
 use strict;
 @ARGV == 2 or die "usage: convert_to_rev_db <input> <output>";
 open my $wr, '+>', $ARGV[1] or die "$!: couldn't open: $ARGV[1]";
@@ -186,3 +183,15 @@ start_svnserve () {
              --listen-host 127.0.0.1 &
 }
 
+prepare_a_utf8_locale () {
+       a_utf8_locale=$(locale -a | sed -n '/\.[uU][tT][fF]-*8$/{
+       p
+       q
+}')
+       if test -n "$a_utf8_locale"
+       then
+               test_set_prereq UTF8
+       else
+               say "# UTF-8 locale not available, some tests are skipped"
+       fi
+}