From: Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:47:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace git-cvsimport with a rewrite that fixes major bugs.
Message-ID: <CALWbr2xx0beca_LUHO45pGMZ4Y0jZ9-iMWq8WBO6PmW==Ysw=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmwwqyc8w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

> 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)

Assuming gitopts is a list rather than a string. (care must be taken
with backend.command() also)