diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 2f6b6aa..3e39e28 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
 ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK = docbook
 ASCIIDOC_CONF = -f asciidoc.conf
 ASCIIDOC_COMMON = $(ASCIIDOC) $(ASCIIDOC_EXTRA) $(ASCIIDOC_CONF) \
-		-agit-version=$(GIT_VERSION)
+		-agit_version=$(GIT_VERSION)
 TXT_TO_HTML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_HTML)
 TXT_TO_XML = $(ASCIIDOC_COMMON) -b $(ASCIIDOC_DOCBOOK)
 MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-normal.xsl
diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
index 750b5a2..31b133b 100644
--- a/builtin/cat-file.c
+++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@
 		if (type_from_string(exp_type) == OBJ_BLOB) {
 			unsigned char blob_sha1[20];
 			if (sha1_object_info(sha1, NULL) == OBJ_TAG) {
-				enum object_type type;
-				unsigned long size;
 				char *buffer = read_sha1_file(sha1, &type, &size);
 				const char *target;
 				if (!skip_prefix(buffer, "object ", &target) ||
diff --git a/t/t1050-large.sh b/t/t1050-large.sh
index f5a9119..f9f3d13 100755
--- a/t/t1050-large.sh
+++ b/t/t1050-large.sh
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
 	# clone does not allow us to pass core.bigfilethreshold to
 	# new repos, so set core.bigfilethreshold globally
 	git config --global core.bigfilethreshold 200k &&
-	echo X | dd of=large1 bs=1k seek=2000 &&
-	echo X | dd of=large2 bs=1k seek=2000 &&
-	echo X | dd of=large3 bs=1k seek=2000 &&
-	echo Y | dd of=huge bs=1k seek=2500 &&
+	printf "%2000000s" X >large1 &&
+	cp large1 large2 &&
+	cp large1 large3 &&
+	printf "%2500000s" Y >huge &&
 	GIT_ALLOC_LIMIT=1500k &&
 	export GIT_ALLOC_LIMIT
 '
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 	large1=$(git rev-parse :large1) &&
 	git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644 $large1 another &&
 	git checkout another &&
-	cmp large1 another ;# this must not be test_cmp
+	test_cmp large1 another
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'packsize limit' '
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
 	test_create_repo packed &&
 	mv pack-* packed/.git/objects/pack &&
 	GIT_DIR=packed/.git git cat-file blob $SHA1 >actual &&
-	cmp huge actual
+	test_cmp huge actual
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'tar achiving' '
diff --git a/t/t3301-notes.sh b/t/t3301-notes.sh
index 245406a..8cffd35 100755
--- a/t/t3301-notes.sh
+++ b/t/t3301-notes.sh
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@
 '
 
 test_expect_success '--no-standard-notes' '
-	cat >expect-commits <<EOF
+	cat >expect-commits <<-EOF &&
 		commit 2c125331118caba0ff8238b7f4958ac6e93fe39c
 		Author: A U Thor <author@example.com>
 		Date:   Thu Apr 7 15:18:13 2005 -0700