Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.

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Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>

Date

Jan 3, 2013, 07:47 UTC

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> Doesn't Python come with a standard subprocess module that lets you
> spawn external programs safely, similar to the way Perl's list form
> open(), e.g. "open($fh, "-|", 'git', @args)", works?

You mean something like this:

  p1 = subprocess.Popen([backend.command()], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
  subprocess.Popen(["git", "fast-import", "--quiet"] + gitopts,
cwd=outdir, stdin=p1.stdout)