From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MinGW: fix diff --no-index /dev/null ...
Message-ID: <200903072056.58465.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <dba002b9e521c639847650fbaeb8b87b66b9562e.1236441065u.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

On Samstag, 7. März 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> --- a/diff-no-index.c
> +++ b/diff-no-index.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ static int get_mode(const char *path, int *mode)
>
>  	if (!path || !strcmp(path, "/dev/null"))
>  		*mode = 0;
> +#ifdef _WIN32
> +	else if (!strcasecmp(path, "nul"))
> +		*mode = 0;
> +#endif
>  	else if (!strcmp(path, "-"))
>  		*mode = create_ce_mode(0666);
>  	else if (lstat(path, &st))

IMO this #ifdef is a reasonable compromise. Trying to move this into 
git-compat-util.h or mingw.h somehow would only obfuscate the code.

Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

-- Hannes