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git for windows: isatty of stdin / stdout inconsistent

Subject: git for windows: isatty of stdin / stdout inconsistent

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Anthony Sottile· Jun 12, 2020, 17:06 UTC · lore
this seems inconsistent with posix platforms

(using cmd.exe, git 2.19.1.windows.1 though I've validated this with other versions as well)

>cat .git\hooks\pre-commit

#!/usr/bin/env python # note: use python3 on linux platforms for shebang import sys print(f'stdin: {sys.stdin.isatty()}') print(f'stdout: {sys.stdout.isatty()}') print(f'stderr: {sys.stderr.isatty()}')

>git commit -m foo --allow-empty

stdin: True stdout: False stderr: True [master (root-commit) 9c7716f] foo

but on linux:

$ git --version git version 2.25.1 $ git commit -m foo --allow-empty stdin: False stdout: True stderr: True [master (root-commit) eb8435a] foo

it's also weird to me that `stdin` seems flipped between the two as well
actual issue: this is breaking coloring detection in https://pre-commit.com
Anthony

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