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Re: Why does git-mergetool use /dev/tty?

From
Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Date
Aug 24, 2010, 07:04 UTC
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<4323106E-D314-4644-8203-71CC3811A962@gernhardtsoftware.com>
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On Aug 24, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Charles Bailey wrote:
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> There's a proposed patch to save and restore the original stdin
> instead of assuming that there is a tty in pu: af314714.
> 
> If the current behaviour is causing an issue for you then testing this
> fix would be appreciated.
The issue was spurious output during tests, which is fixed by af314714.
Thanks for the explanation though, I had missed that it was part of a pipeline.
~~ Brian
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