Re: Bug/comment

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2018, 17:38 UTC
Message-ID: <c5b7b176-6814-66ac-fdd8-f90b0cc67649@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH5451=Xdotsk-t56ZPdybuAURYbHYe8xzD7uU+ZZjSu3YtyWQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 30 January 2018 05:32 AM, Andrew Ardill wrote:

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> Hi Ilija,
> 
> On 30 January 2018 at 10:21, Ilija Pecelj <pecelj@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Though it might not be considered a bug 'per se' it is definitely wired.
>> Namely, when you type 'yes' word and hit enter in git bash for widnows, the
>> process enters infinite loop and just prints 'y' letter in new line.
>
> ...
>
> I agree it's a little weird if you have no idea what it's doing, but
> it is very useful and very old, used by many many different scripts
> etc, and so unlikely to change.
>

Just to make things more clear, 'yes' is an UNIX utility (as hinted in the Wikipedia article link) that might come as part of Cygwin and is not a part of Git itself.

-- 
Kaartic

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