# [PATCH] git-gui: '/dev/null' on Windows is named 'nul' 2 messages from 2007-03-07 to 2007-03-07. Participants: Johannes Sixt, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7137 ## Johannes Sixt, 2007-03-07 16:26 Subject: [PATCH] git-gui: '/dev/null' on Windows is named 'nul' Message-ID: <45EEE7BA.E0603922@eudaptics.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/45EEE7BA.E0603922%40eudaptics.com ``` From: Johannes Sixt Making (or amending) an initial commit on Windows fails because redirecting something to '/dev/null' must fail - this device does not exist. Redirect to 'nul' instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt --- I've noticed this while using the MinGW port, but I do not know whether this is needed or even works on Cygwin. (Now lets see whether my MUA wraps long lines...) -- Hannes git-gui/git-gui.sh | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh index f84ba33..971d5fe 100755 --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh +++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh @@ -1288,7 +1288,11 @@ proc commit_committree {fd_wt curHEAD msg} { } } else { # git commit-tree writes to stderr during initial commit. - lappend cmd 2>/dev/null + if {[is_Windows]} { + lappend cmd 2>nul + } else { + lappend cmd 2>/dev/null + } } lappend cmd <$msg_p if {[catch {set cmt_id [eval exec $cmd]} err]} { -- 1.5.0.2.279.g4808 ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-03-07 16:57 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: '/dev/null' on Windows is named 'nul' Message-ID: <20070307165745.GA27922@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070307165745.GA27922%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: <45EEE7BA.E0603922@eudaptics.com> ``` Johannes Sixt wrote: > From: Johannes Sixt > > Making (or amending) an initial commit on Windows fails because > redirecting something to '/dev/null' must fail - this device does not exist. > Redirect to 'nul' instead. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt > --- > I've noticed this while using the MinGW port, but I do not know whether > this is needed or even works on Cygwin. I had previously fixed this in gitgui-0.6.3, which is now also merged into `maint` in git.git. It was fixed by just removing that redirection block, in git 1.5.0 and later commit-tree doesn't print anything on stderr when making an initial commit. -- Shawn. ```