git update-index --add --cacheinfo 120000 $ln_s_obj "$2"
fi
}
+
+# The following mingw_* functions obey POSIX shell syntax, but are actually
+# bash scripts, and are meant to be used only with bash on Windows.
+
+# A test_cmp function that treats LF and CRLF equal and avoids to fork
+# diff when possible.
+mingw_test_cmp () {
+ # Read text into shell variables and compare them. If the results
+ # are different, use regular diff to report the difference.
+ local test_cmp_a= test_cmp_b=
+
+ # When text came from stdin (one argument is '-') we must feed it
+ # to diff.
+ local stdin_for_diff=
+
+ # Since it is difficult to detect the difference between an
+ # empty input file and a failure to read the files, we go straight
+ # to diff if one of the inputs is empty.
+ if test -s "$1" && test -s "$2"
+ then
+ # regular case: both files non-empty
+ mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1"
+ mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2"
+ elif test -s "$1" && test "$2" = -
+ then
+ # read 2nd file from stdin
+ mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1"
+ mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b
+ stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_b"'
+ elif test "$1" = - && test -s "$2"
+ then
+ # read 1st file from stdin
+ mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a
+ mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2"
+ stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_a"'
+ fi
+ test -n "$test_cmp_a" &&
+ test -n "$test_cmp_b" &&
+ test "$test_cmp_a" = "$test_cmp_b" ||
+ eval "diff -u \"\$@\" $stdin_for_diff"
+}
+
+# $1 is the name of the shell variable to fill in
+mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ () {
+ # Read line-wise using LF as the line separator
+ # and use IFS to strip CR.
+ local line
+ while :
+ do
+ if IFS=$'\r' read -r -d $'\n' line
+ then
+ # good
+ line=$line$'\n'
+ else
+ # we get here at EOF, but also if the last line
+ # was not terminated by LF; in the latter case,
+ # some text was read
+ if test -z "$line"
+ then
+ # EOF, really
+ break
+ fi
+ fi
+ eval "$1=\$$1\$line"
+ done
+}