Re: How to handle terminal detection in a daemon calling git?

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2012, 03:14 UTC
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On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Travis P <git@castle.fastmail.fm> wrote:

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>
> I've got a script that runs in the background without a terminal.
> It actually does have STDOUT and STDERR set to a rotating log file.
>
> When it runs:
>  /bin/sh -c 'cd /to/my/wc; git pull --ff-only'
> the git command fails (rc 32768).
>
> When it runs
>  /bin/sh -c 'cd /to/my/wc; git pull --ff-only > /to/a/file 2>&1'
>
> or even
>  /bin/sh -c 'cd /to/my/wc; git pull --ff-only | cat'
>
> then all is well.  The command succeeds (rc 0, and I see the expected
> results).
>
> Piping through 'cat' is okay, but I'd rather avoid the 'trick'.  Is
> there
> some way to communicate to git that it should operate just as if output
> were redirected?

would "git --no-pager" help? Honestly I don't know why your first error occurred at all -- they should all have worked, IMO.