From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [OT] Activision (Re: use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:44:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwtir846o.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051129221221.GC3033@steel.home> (Alex Riesen's message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:12:21 +0100")
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Nov 28, 2005 17:56:58 +0100:
>> > if you're running Cygwin, wouldn't Cygwin's Perl make a lot more sense?
>>
>> I thought so, too, but I guess there's a reason that Activision's perl was
>> used.
>
> the reason were incompatible scripts (notably, the ones expecting crlf).
I wonder why people keep saying Activision ;-). Taken with my
use of frotz and nitfol in the examples [*1*], somebody might
confuse us with a group of old Infocom [*2*] fans.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitfol
[2] http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-29 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-28 7:34 use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status Alex Riesen
2005-11-28 15:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-28 16:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-28 16:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-28 16:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-29 22:12 ` Alex Riesen
2005-11-29 22:44 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-11-29 23:56 ` [OT] Activision (Re: use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status) Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-28 18:31 ` use binmode(STDOUT) in git-status Junio C Hamano
2005-11-29 10:05 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2005-11-29 11:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
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