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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Implement poor-man's submodule support using commit hooks
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:40:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612201440.41784.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458949C4.1020207@dawes.za.net>

On Wednesday 2006 December 20 14:33, Rogan Dawes wrote:

> It wouldn't, since the redirection overwrites the file at the same time

Of course you are correct; however it wasn't completely crazy.  Before now, 
I've replaced files in C by doing

 fd_old = open( "someexistingfile" );
 unlink( "someexistingfile" );
 fd_new = open( "someexistingfile" );

So I was really just trying it in case bash did a similar thing internally.

> as trying to read from it. A better way is to redirect to a temp file,
> and rename it if the previous operation was successful.

That's what I ended up doing; as you say it's better anyway because the error 
conditions don't mean that the .gitmodules file ends up half written.


Andy
-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-20 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-20 13:09 [RFC/PATCH] Implement poor-man's submodule support using commit hooks Andy Parkins
2006-12-20 13:29 ` Johannes Sixt
2006-12-20 13:47   ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-20 14:07     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-20 14:20       ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-20 14:33     ` Rogan Dawes
2006-12-20 14:40       ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2006-12-20 15:42         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-12-20 16:09         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-20 13:36 ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-20 13:48   ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-20 14:35   ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-20 15:44     ` Martin Waitz
2006-12-20 14:18 ` Johannes Sixt

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