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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Tom Hale <tomnott@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] add--interactive.perl: specify --no-color explicitly
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:25:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo8mgz150.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200907082510.GA1264377@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 7 Sep 2020 04:25:10 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> By the way, this is an instance of a more generic bug, which is that:
>
>   git -p my-script
>
> will cause any sub-programs of git-my-script to think their stdout is
> going to a pager, even if my-script redirects them to a file or another
> pipe.
>
> I had a solution long ago in:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/20150810052353.GB15441@sigill.intra.peff.net/
>
> but it raises a bunch of interesting portability questions. Since this
> comes up so rarely, I never really pursued it further.

That indeed is from long ago ;-) and I still kind of like it.  Is
the issue that some platforms do not even have inum of the "thing"
connected to a file descriptor?  I think a fallback code for such a
system can just return a constant pipe ID to anybody asks, so that
an exported GIT_PAGER_PIPE_ID would always match, which gives the
behaviour identical to what we currently do with GIT_PAGER_IN_USE,
and that would be one way to help those capable of giving useful IDs
while not harming others.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-08 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07  8:06 [PATCH 0/2] some minor add--interactive fixes Jeff King
2020-09-07  8:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] add-patch: fix inverted return code of repo_read_index() Jeff King
2020-09-07  8:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] add--interactive.perl: specify --no-color explicitly Jeff King
2020-09-07  8:25   ` Jeff King
2020-09-08 16:25     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-09-08 18:51   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-09-09  9:15     ` Jeff King

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