Re: [TopGit PATCH] tg-create.sh: Support for multiple {to,cc,bcc} options

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Aug 9, 2008, 08:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20080809082701.GE32184@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vbq039dfa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:37:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> >> +	prefix="$(echo "$2" | sed -e 's/\//\\\\\//g')"
> >
> > Maybe use s### ? ;-)
> 
> Personally I like '|' instead.  It's much less visually distracting than #.

I'm just used to '#' more, but either is fine for me.

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> >> +
> >> +	git config --get-all topgit.$1 2>/dev/null |
> >> +		sed -e "s/^/$prefix /g"
> >> +}
> >
> > Won't this return an error code and terminate the script in case no
> > option is defined?
> 
> Exit code from upstream of a pipe does not affect the exit code from the
> pipeline, and sed does not exit non-zero just because there was no
> substitution.

Oh, you're right - somehow I didn't quite absorb that pipe is used late at the night. ;-) I still don't understand the stderr redirect, though.

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis