[PATCH v2 2/2] Explicitly `fflush` stdout before expecting interactive input

From: 마누엘 via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2020, 11:27 UTC
Message-ID: <d3949e42004f31e8741fad08352f782b4b8536eb.1586518072.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.755.v2.git.git.1586518072.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: =?UTF-8?q?=EB=A7=88=EB=88=84=EC=97=98?= <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>

At least one interactive command writes a prompt to `stdout` and then reads user input on `stdin`: `git clean --interactive`. If the prompt is left in the buffer, the user will not realize the program is waiting for their input.

So let's just flush `stdout` before reading the user's input.

Signed-off-by: 마누엘 <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 prompt.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/prompt.c b/prompt.c
index 098dcfb7cf9..5ded21a017f 100644
--- a/prompt.c
+++ b/prompt.c
@@ -77,8 +77,10 @@ char *git_prompt(const char *prompt, int flags)
 
 int git_read_line_interactively(struct strbuf *line)
 {
-	int ret = strbuf_getline_lf(line, stdin);
+	int ret;
 
+	fflush(stdout);
+	ret = strbuf_getline_lf(line, stdin);
 	if (ret != EOF)
 		strbuf_trim_trailing_newline(line);

-- 
gitgitgadget