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Re: [PATCH] MinGW: fix diff --no-index /dev/null ...

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2009, 21:40 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> Unlike other places where a string is compared to /dev/null, in this case 
> do not parse a diff, but rather command line parameters that have 
> possibly been transformed from /dev/null to nul, so that the file can be 
> opened.
> -- snap --
>
> If you like it, may I ask you to amend the message?
>
>> Should this go to 'maint'?
>
> Technically, yes, as it is a fix.
>
> However, it might not be necessary, as literally all Windows work on Git 
> happens in git/mingw.git, git/mingw/j6t.git and git/mingw/4msysgit.git.

Yeah, I should have been clearer. Unless msysgit will have a maintenance track for 1.6.1.X, there is no point.

Thanks for reading my mind and a clarified message I can use for amending.
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