$GIT_TEST_CMP "$@"
}
+# Print a sequence of numbers or letters in increasing order. This is
+# similar to GNU seq(1), but the latter might not be available
+# everywhere (and does not do letters). It may be used like:
+#
+# for i in `test_seq 100`; do
+# for j in `test_seq 10 20`; do
+# for k in `test_seq a z`; do
+# echo $i-$j-$k
+# done
+# done
+# done
+
+test_seq () {
+ case $# in
+ 1) set 1 "$@" ;;
+ 2) ;;
+ *) error "bug in the test script: not 1 or 2 parameters to test_seq" ;;
+ esac
+ "$PERL_PATH" -le 'print for $ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]' -- "$@"
+}
+
# This function can be used to schedule some commands to be run
# unconditionally at the end of the test to restore sanity:
#