From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:40:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git help -w should not create nohup.out
Message-ID: <7vhcgkm7yy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802080153570.11591@racer.site>

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

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>
>> git-help--browse uses 'nohup' to launch some browsers.
>
> Why?
>
> "nohup" should be used to start a program that should persist even after 
> you logged out.  I fail to see how this should be sensible for "git help 
> -w".  So "off with the head", uh, do away with the "nohup", I say!

True.  Christian, what was the reason you added nohup?
I would imagine if you did this:

	(1) open a new xterm;

        (2) in that xterm, run the browser, perhaps from
            git-help--browse, but without nohup, in the
            background;

	(3) exit the terminal

then the browser might get upset, losing its controlling
terminal.

But I suspect that would be a really broken behaviour.