From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 09:08:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] applypatch-msg hook no-longer thinks stdin is a tty
Message-ID: <560F9B24.6030605@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFOYHZC9ju5Yg9LkYwiwXC+D0QZGs1isetYd-XvyhwhcZuJK+w@mail.gmail.com>

Am 03.10.2015 um 09:37 schrieb Chris Packham:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> If you want to go interactive from the hook, you'd have to open and
>> interact with /dev/tty yourself in your hook anyway.
>
> That may be what I have to do, although I have absolutely no idea how.

Something like this:

exec <>/dev/tty 1>&0 2>&0
printf "what now: "
read answer
echo the answer was: "$answer"

-- Hannes