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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Sebastian Celis <sebastian@sebastiancelis.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new one
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:53:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vaav42ya1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100220052504.GA24697@progeny.tock> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Fri\, 19 Feb 2010 23\:25\:18 -0600")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>  - Create a new pseudo-terminal on the fly and capture its output.
>
> This patch implements the third approach.

Yuck.  You must be having too much fun ;-).

> On non-Unixlike and pre-SVR4 systems, this functionality should be
> disabled by passing NO_GRANTPT=YesPlease to the makefile.  I do not
> know whether Cygwin or HP-UX implements the required functions
> appropriately, so to be safe this patch includes that option for them.
>
> On platforms where test-terminal does not work, the test script will
> maintain its old behavior (skipping most of its tests unless
> GIT_TEST_OPTS includes --verbose).

If we are truly serious about doing this, it might be worthwhile to check
how expect (http://expect.nist.gov) does this portably.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-20  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-19  6:50 [PATCH v2 0/7] Re: 'git svn log' no longer uses the pager Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  6:51 ` [PATCH 1/7] Fix 'git var' usage synopsis Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  7:00 ` [PATCH 2/7] Make 'git var GIT_PAGER' always print the configured pager Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  7:06 ` [PATCH 3/7] git.1: Clarify the behavior of the --paginate option Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  7:09 ` [PATCH 4/7] git svn: Fix launching of pager Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  7:12 ` [PATCH 5/7] am: " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  7:18 ` [PATCH 6/7] tests: Add tests for automatic use " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-20 17:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-21  2:03     ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-21  2:09       ` [PATCH v4 7/7] t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new one Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-21  7:30         ` Jeff King
2010-02-22  8:19       ` [PATCH v2 6/7] tests: Add tests for automatic use of pager Johannes Sixt
2010-02-22  8:46         ` [PATCH 8/7] tests: Fix race condition in t7006-pager Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-22  9:12           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  7:23 ` [PATCH/RFC 7/7] t7006-pager: if stdout is not a terminal, make a new one Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  8:08   ` Jeff King
2010-02-19  8:19     ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-19  8:34       ` Jeff King
2010-02-19 16:25         ` Brandon Casey
2010-02-20  0:29           ` Brandon Casey
2010-02-20  0:39             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-20  3:42               ` Brandon Casey
2010-02-20  5:25                 ` [PATCH v2 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-20  6:53                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-02-20  8:50                     ` [PATCH v3 " Jonathan Nieder
2010-02-20  9:48                       ` [PATCH squash] Simplify test-terminal.perl Jonathan Nieder

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