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From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Thomas Rast" <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Magnus Bäck" <magnus.back@sonyericsson.com>,
	"Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetool: Remove explicit references to /dev/tty
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:50:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6E883A.2030301@hashpling.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820122724.GS10407@burratino>

On 20/08/2010 13:27, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> +++ b/git-mergetool.sh
>> @@ -292,14 +292,15 @@ if test $# -eq 0 ; then
>>       printf "Merging:\n"
>>       printf "$files\n"
>>
>> -    files_to_merge |
>> +    # Save original stdin to fd 3
>> +    files_to_merge 3<&0 |
>
> I would think this should work, but it doesn't feel idiomatic.  Why
> not save stdin a little earlier, so the reader does not have to track
> down whether it has been redirected?

No special reason, I just thought it was more natural to save it at the 
time that we do the redirect..

> The test quietly passes for me with dash but fails with ksh:
>
>   /home/jrn/src/git4/git-mergetool: line 303: 3: cannot open [Bad file descriptor]

... but given that this approach is evidently less portable your way is 
clearly better.

> With the patch below on top, it passes with dash and ksh.

Thanks, I'll re-roll in a bit at squash your fixes in, if that's OK?

Charles.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-12 21:28 Status of conflicted files resolved with rerere Magnus Bäck
2010-08-12 21:36 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-08-13 17:19   ` Jay Soffian
2010-08-15  2:24   ` David Aguilar
2010-08-15  6:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-15 16:00       ` Magnus Bäck
2010-08-17  9:22       ` [PATCH] mergetool: Skip autoresolved paths David Aguilar
2010-08-19 10:02         ` Thomas Rast
2010-08-20  3:52           ` David Aguilar
2010-08-20  9:57             ` Charles Bailey
2010-08-20 10:09               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-20 11:17             ` [PATCH] mergetool: Remove explicit references to /dev/tty Charles Bailey
2010-08-20 12:27               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-20 13:50                 ` Charles Bailey [this message]
2010-08-20 14:19                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-20 15:25                 ` [PATCH v2] " Charles Bailey

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