diff-highlight: prefer "echo" to "cat" in tests

We generate a bunch of one-line files whose contents match
their names, and then generate our commits by cat-ing those
files. Let's just echo the contents directly, which saves
some processes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/t/t9400-diff-highlight.sh b/contrib/diff-highlight/t/t9400-diff-highlight.sh
index deab90ed91..3f02d31467 100755
--- a/contrib/diff-highlight/t/t9400-diff-highlight.sh
+++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/t/t9400-diff-highlight.sh
@@ -68,26 +68,22 @@ test_strip_patch_header () {
 #	     D
 #
 dh_test_setup_history () {
-	echo "file1" >file1 &&
-	echo "file2" >file2 &&
-	echo "file3" >file3 &&
-
-	cat file1 >file &&
+	echo file1 >file &&
 	git add file &&
 	test_tick &&
 	git commit -m "D" &&
 
 	git checkout -b branch &&
-	cat file2 >file &&
+	echo file2 >file &&
 	test_tick &&
 	git commit -a -m "E" &&
 
-	cat file3 >file &&
+	echo file3 >file &&
 	test_tick &&
 	git commit -a -m "F" &&
 
 	git checkout master &&
-	cat file2 >file &&
+	echo file2 >file &&
 	test_tick &&
 	git commit -a -m "A"
 }