From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:40:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MinGW: fix diff --no-index /dev/null ...
Message-ID: <7vhc25m2oz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903072133270.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.