Re: [PATCH] git-mv is not able to handle big directories

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2005, 07:55 UTC
Message-ID: <867jazre78.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk6ez7u1y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

Junio> open my $oh, qw(|- git-update-index -z --stdin) Junio> or die "oops";

This is Perl 5.6 or later. Breaks on Perl 5.5, which is still in use in some places.

To be compatible with 5.5, you have to create a handle explicitly:

        require IO::Handle;
        my $oh = IO::Handle->new;
        open $oh, qw(...) ...;

That works all the way back to 5.4, which is the earliest Perl supported by the core team.

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