From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:10:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: prevent filters from reading from stdin
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706051704170.4046@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070605141208.GA23605@moooo.ath.cx>

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Matthias Lederhofer wrote:

> stdin is the list of commits when the env, tree and index
> filter are executed.  The filters are not supposed to read
> anything from stdin so the best is to give them /dev/null
> for reading.

ACK. After chatting with Matthias on IRC, I agree that there is more 
damage than benefit from being able to (accidentally) take stdin in these 
filters.

Ciao,
Dscho