From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:57:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: '/dev/null' on Windows is named 'nul'
Message-ID: <20070307165745.GA27922@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <45EEE7BA.E0603922@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
> From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
> 
> Making (or amending) an initial commit on Windows fails because
> redirecting something to '/dev/null' must fail - this device does not exist.
> Redirect to 'nul' instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
> ---
>  I've noticed this while using the MinGW port, but I do not know whether
>  this is needed or even works on Cygwin.

I had previously fixed this in gitgui-0.6.3, which is now also
merged into `maint` in git.git.  It was fixed by just removing that
redirection block, in git 1.5.0 and later commit-tree doesn't print
anything on stderr when making an initial commit.
 
-- 
Shawn.