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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2016, #02; Mon, 12)

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Dec 13, 2016, 15:39 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> * js/mingw-isatty (2016-12-11) 1 commit
>   (merged to 'next' on 2016-12-12 at 60c1da6676)
>  + mingw: intercept isatty() to handle /dev/null as Git expects it
> 
>  We often decide if a session is interactive by checking if the
>  standard I/O streams are connected to a TTY, but isatty() emulation
>  on Windows incorrectly returned true if it is used on NUL (i.e. an
>  equivalent to /dev/null). This has been fixed.

I'd like to suggest a reword: we did not use an isatty() emulation, but Windows' own _isatty() function that simply has different semantics than what Git expected. *Now* we have an isatty() emulation that wraps _isatty() and emulates the behavior expected by Git.

Thanks, Dscho

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