Re: Bug: file named - on git commit

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 28, 2013, 20:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy5fduj2u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130128204140.GA7759@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> Thomas Rast wrote:
>> Rene Moser <mail@renemoser.net> writes:
>
>>> Found a little issue in git version 1.7.9.5 if a file named "-", causing
>>> "git commit" to read from stdin.
>>>
>>> (So you must hit ctrl-d or ctrl-c to finish the commit.)
> [...]
>> This was fixed by Junio around 4682d85 (diff-index.c: "git diff" has no
>> need to read blob from the standard input, 2012-06-27), which is
>> included starting with v1.7.12 and the v1.7.11.3 maint release.  Please
>> upgrade.
>
> Should upgrade-averse folks stuck on 1.7.10.y (like Debian 7.0, which
> is currently in the release candidate stage) take this fix?  Do you
> happen to know of any other fixes such people would want?

FYI, the fix referred to in this thread are three-patch series that forked from 1.7.6.6, so it should be trivial to merge it even to such an old version.

The topic-branch workflow shines ;-)