Re: [PATCH] fast-import: checkpoint: dump branches/tags/marks even if object_count==0

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2017, 06:02 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvak31hts.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH_=xoZfuJDE515zZbry1DdGV+YeySy+5T9QOBefO-MMTSvXSA@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Rannaud <e@nanocritical.com> writes:

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> Doesn't fast-import get a copy of 8 (open for both reading and
> writing), as a child process, and exec 8>&- only closes the copy of
> the file descriptor in the parent shell, so the named pipe remains
> open for writing somewhere (in the fast-import process itself, in
> fact), therefore fast-import will not find EOF on its stdin?

AHHHHhhhh. If that was done intentionally, well, I really have to marvel at the cleverness of the solution! It makes sense now to me.