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The shell function that starts git-daemon wants to read the first line of the daemon's stderr to ensure that it started correctly. Subsequent daemon errors should be redirected to fd 4 (which is the terminal in verbose mode or /dev/null in quiet mode). To that end the shell script used 'read' to get the first line of output, and then 'cat &' to forward everything else in a background process. The problem is, that 'cat >&4 &' does not produce any output because the shell redirects a background process's stdin to /dev/null. To have this command invocation do anything useful, we have to redirect its stdin explicitly (which overrides the /dev/null redirection). The shell function connects the daemon's stderr to its consumers via a FIFO. We cannot just do this: read line <git_daemon_output cat <git_daemon_output >&4 & because after the first redirection the pipe is closed and the daemon could receive SIGPIPE if it writes at the wrong moment. Therefore, we open the readable end of the FIFO only once on fd 7 in the shell and dup from there to the stdin of the two consumers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License.
It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of
hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the
documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help
commandname".
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is
installed).
Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git-scm.com/
including full documentation and Git related tools.
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git
mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature
requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read
Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission).
To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in
the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are
available at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival
sites.
The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in
git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and
the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good
reference for project status, development direction and
remaining tasks.