# [PATCH] git-quiltimport: preserve standard input to be able to read user input

1 messages from 2009-02-24 to 2009-02-24. Participants: Gerrit Pape.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17986

## Gerrit Pape, 2009-02-24 09:00

Subject: [PATCH] git-quiltimport: preserve standard input to be able to read user input
Message-ID: <20090224090006.16998.qmail@c47830338ab2ae.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090224090006.16998.qmail%40c47830338ab2ae.315fe32.mid.smarden.org

```
When run without --author and it fails to determine an author, git
quiltimport tries `read patch_author` to get user input, but standard
input has been redirected to the patch series file.  This commit lets
quiltimport read the series file through file descriptor 3 so that the
standard input is preserved.

Reported by Uwe Kleine-König through
 http://bugs.debian.org/515910

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---
 git-quiltimport.sh |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-quiltimport.sh b/git-quiltimport.sh
index cebaee1..9a6ba2b 100755
--- a/git-quiltimport.sh
+++ b/git-quiltimport.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ tmp_info="$tmp_dir/info"
 commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
 
 mkdir $tmp_dir || exit 2
-while read patch_name level garbage
+while read patch_name level garbage <&3
 do
 	case "$patch_name" in ''|'#'*) continue;; esac
 	case "$level" in
@@ -134,5 +134,5 @@ do
 		commit=$( (echo "$SUBJECT"; echo; cat "$tmp_msg") | git commit-tree $tree -p $commit) &&
 		git update-ref -m "quiltimport: $patch_name" HEAD $commit || exit 4
 	fi
-done <"$QUILT_PATCHES/series"
+done 3<"$QUILT_PATCHES/series"
 rm -rf $tmp_dir || exit 5
-- 
1.6.1.3

```