From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:52:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-mergetool about Apple's opendiff/FileMerge
Message-ID: <46035D0B.8020009@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqiksh4a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> +                opendiff $LOCAL $REMOTE -merge $path | cat
> What's the purpose of this cat anyway?  It looks like an
> expensive no-op to me.
>   

If stdout is a tty, opendiff appears to background itself automatically. 
I assume he wanted to prevent that without losing any output from the 
command.

-Steve