Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] gitweb: Use --git-dir parameter instead of setting $ENV{'GIT_DIR'}

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:42:31 +0200

Timo Hirvonen wrote:

> Dennis Stosberg <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> -    open my $fd, "-|", "$gitbin/git-cat-file -t $hash" or return;
>> +    open my $fd, "-|", "$gitbin/git --git-dir=$git_dir cat-file -t $hash" or return;
> 
> How about adding a function to simplify calling the git commands?
> 
> Something like git("cat-file -t $hash") which would return
> "$gitbin/git --git-dir=$git_dir cat-file -t $hash" string.

Or rather add a function(s) to call git commands, either returning git command
output, or filehandle to read from, e.g.

  my $fd = git_open("cat-file", "-t $hash") or return; 

i.e. each parameter separately, just in case.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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