From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:58:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-svn, perl/Git.pm: add central method for prompting passwords honoring GIT_ASKPASS and SSH_ASKPASS
Message-ID: <7vmxa3pa6e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F0405D4.9090102@tu-clausthal.de>

Sven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de> writes:

> Some perl versions, like the one from msys, crash sometimes
> if reading from STDIN wasn't successful and chomp is applied
> to the variable into which was read.

Depending on how widespread such implementations of Perl are, a patch to
fix other uses of chomps might deserve to be on the maintenance track
independent from this patch series. I seem to find many hits to:

    $ git grep -e 'chomp *([^)@]*='

already in our codebase.