Re: [PATCH] Quick description of possible gitattributes system

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Friday 2007, March 02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > On Friday 2007, March 02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > Yes. How about just having the built-in git pager do the right
> > > thing?
> >
> > Perfect.  This is absolutely the right thing to do I think.
>
> Well, it would be perfect, except it's rather hard to do. Right now
> we simply don't have any way to tell the pager what to do with the
> data, and we'd need to do some communications passing thing to let it
> know.

There is an alternative.  pager.c:run_pager() runs a select() to wait 
for data before it actually exec()s the pager.  What if after the 
select() the process didn't exec(), but read the first line to decide 
what pager to exec?

Then, when pager_in_use is true, the sending process writes, say, a 
handler identifier which tells the pager process what to exec().



Andy

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