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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2008-07-22 03:14:12 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-25 21:29:44 -0700
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parentrun-command: add pre-exec callback (diff)
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spawn pager via run_command interface
This has two important effects: 1. The pager is now the _child_ process, instead of the parent. This means that whatever spawned git (e.g., the shell) will see the exit code of the git process, and not the pager. 2. The mingw and regular code are now unified, which makes the setup_pager function much simpler. There are two caveats: 1. We used to call execlp directly on the pager, followed by trying to exec it via the shall. We now just use the shell (which is what mingw has always done). This may have different results for pager names which contain shell metacharacters. It is also slightly less efficient because we unnecessarily run the shell; however, pager spawning is by definition an interactive task, so it shouldn't be a huge problem. 2. The git process will remain in memory while the user looks through the pager. This is potentially wasteful. We could get around this by turning the parent into a meta-process which spawns _both_ git and the pager, collects the exit status from git, waits for both to end, and then exits with git's exit code. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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