From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2016 07:59:54 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2016, #01; Fri, 1)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607020958210.12947@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvm0vry4.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * jk/common-main-2.8 (2016-07-01) 5 commits
>  - common-main: call git_setup_gettext()
>  - common-main: call restore_sigpipe_to_default()
>  - common-main: call sanitize_stdfds()
>  - common-main: call git_extract_argv0_path()
>  - add an extra level of indirection to main()
>  (this branch is used by jk/common-main.)
> 
>  There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
>  the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
>  built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
>  potty does.  It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
>  programs (like test helpers).  A common "main()" function that
>  calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
>  make it harder to make mistakes.

To make it easier, I pushed my version of the patch series (including the
one required to be able to build with DEVELOPER=1) as 'common-main-maint'
to https://github.com/dscho/git.

Ciao,
Dscho