From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:26:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Windows: Fix intermittent failures of t7701
Message-ID: <7v3af3vnti.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <498008BA.2000201@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
>> I use this trick in my valgrind series:
>> 
>> 	($PROGRAM; echo $? > exit.code) | $OTHER_PROGRAM &&
>> 	test 0 = "$(cat exit.code)"
>
> Ah, using a file as temporary storage? Why not simply
>
> 	$PROGRAM > data &&
> 	$OTHER_PROGRAM < data
>
> Hm? ;)

Because too much cleverness often blinds clever minds.

Care to reroll with the simpler, dumber but clearer version?