From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:49:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: Refuse to write the archive to a terminal.
Message-ID: <20090917014854.GD3274@feather>
In-Reply-To: <4AB0C7DE.7030109@viscovery.net>

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:11:26PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Josh Triplett schrieb:
> > I considered adding a -f/--force option, like gzip has, but writing an
> > archive to a tty seems like a sufficiently insane use case that I'll let
> > whoever actually needs that write the patch for it. ;)
> 
> How about '--output -' instead?

Yeah, that seems significantly better than --force.  Though I don't
particularly care for the '-' convention to mean 'stdout'; in principle
that ought to create a file named '-' in the current directory.
/dev/stdout makes more sense, and doesn't require any work on git's
part beyond this patch.

- Josh Triplett