From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:31:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] filter-branch: fail gracefully when a filter fails
Message-ID: <20070706093138.GA12737@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vir8yextt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 01:33:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> the purpose of updating this script, I would say a temporary
> file is much better than any of the alternatives around 1>&3.

As the one who originally mentioned the redirection trick, let me say
that I agree. I brought it up more as "yuck, this is the way you have
to do it" than a real suggestion. I think the tempfile, while ugly, is
less ugly.

-Peff