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From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@yaph.org>, tytso@mit.edu, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-mergetool about Apple's opendiff/FileMerge
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:52:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46035D0B.8020009@midwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbqiksh4a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> +                opendiff $LOCAL $REMOTE -merge $path | cat
> What's the purpose of this cat anyway?  It looks like an
> expensive no-op to me.
>   

If stdout is a tty, opendiff appears to background itself automatically. 
I assume he wanted to prevent that without losing any output from the 
command.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-22 21:37 [PATCH] Teach git-mergetool about Apple's opendiff/FileMerge Arjen Laarhoven
2007-03-23  4:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-23  4:52   ` Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-03-23  8:25   ` Arjen Laarhoven
2007-03-23 14:15 ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-23 18:42   ` Marco Roeland
2007-03-29 14:03 ` Theodore Tso

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