From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal.
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:53:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB1CEDF.7020105@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090917014854.GD3274@feather>
Josh Triplett schrieb:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:11:26PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> How about '--output -' instead?
>
> Yeah, that seems significantly better than --force. Though I don't
> particularly care for the '-' convention to mean 'stdout'; in principle
> that ought to create a file named '-' in the current directory.
> /dev/stdout makes more sense, and doesn't require any work on git's
> part beyond this patch.
Except that /dev/stdout is not portable. You can always say --output ./-
if you want an oddly named file in the current directory.
-- Hannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-16 10:31 [PATCH] archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal Josh Triplett
2009-09-16 11:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-09-16 11:27 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-09-16 11:48 ` Reece Dunn
2009-09-16 12:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-17 1:49 ` Josh Triplett
2009-09-17 5:53 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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