Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-mergetool about Apple's opendiff/FileMerge

From: Steven Grimm <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:52:27 -0700

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> +                opendiff $LOCAL $REMOTE -merge $path | cat
> What's the purpose of this cat anyway?  It looks like an
> expensive no-op to me.
>   

If stdout is a tty, opendiff appears to background itself automatically. 
I assume he wanted to prevent that without losing any output from the 
command.

-Steve