Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] upload-archive: use start_command instead of fork

["René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>]

Am 01.08.2011 23:20, schrieb Johannes Sixt:
> Am 01.08.2011 22:48, schrieb René Scharfe:
>> So git archive gives the right results when writing to a pipe, but
>> always the same wrong result when writing directly to a file.
> 
> This could indeed be a CRLF issue. archive-tar.c runs gzip to let it
> write to the original fd 1 (stdout). gzip is an MSYS program, and MSYS
> is "clever" and sets up the channel in text mode (CRLF conversion) if it
> is a regular file, but in binary mode if it is a pipe.
> 
> Without the gzip filter, git-archive writes to stdout itself. Since we
> have set up all our channels in binary mode, we do not suffer from the
> same problem for plain tar format.
> 
> So, I don't think we can do a lot about it, short of patching MSYS again...

Or we could pipe the output through us, i.e. attach a builtin version of
cat at the output end of the called command.  Only on Windows, of
course.  Better ugly and limping then wrong, right?

René