Re: [BUG] Infinite loop in git send-email if ran non-interactively.

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mar 25, 2009, 16:23 UTC
Message-ID: <vpq4oxh8tb8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <76718490903250904q3ca9f20ak7288e49e226bb9fb@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been hit by c1f2aa45b (send-email: add --confirm option and
>> configuration setting) running git send-email from a cron job.
>
> BTW, can you provide the details on how you are invoking send-email?

patches=$(git format-patch [...]) [...] git send-email --to "$to" --from "$from" $patches

> Have stdin/stdout/stderr been redirected?

stdout and stderr are redirected to a file. stdin is not (I don't know exactly what cron sets it to).

> What arguments are you giving it? And is this Vixie cron?

The "cron" package in Debian etch (oldstable now).

Thanks,

-- 
Matthieu