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Re: [PATCH] bisect: avoid pipes to better catch "git rev-list" errors

From
Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2009, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID
<20090410093436.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To
<20090329115832.28acd74e.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Quoting Christian Couder:
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> When doing:
> 
> eval "git rev-list --bisect-vars ..." | {
>         while read line
>         do
>                 echo "$line &&"
>         done
>         echo ':'
> }
> 
> the result code comes from the last "echo ':'", not from running
> "git rev-list --bisect-vars ...".
> 
> This means that we may miss errors from "git rev-list".
> 
> To fix that, this patch gets rid of the pipes by redirecting the
> output of "git rev-list" into a file, and then reading from this
> file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Junio, may I ask what happened to this patch?
-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/
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  1. bisect: avoid pipes to better catch "git rev-list" errorsChristian Couder, Mar 29, 2009
  2. Nanako ShiraishiApr 10, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2009

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