Hi Junio, On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes: > > > I finally got a chance to debug the problems with the ever-timing-out > > test runs of `pu` on Windows. Turns out that pb/bisect uncovered a > > really old, really bad bug: on Windows, isatty() does not do what Git > > expects, at least not completely: it detects interactive terminals *and > > character devices*. > > Sounds as if somebody who did Windows at Microsoft had a good sense > of humor to mimick the misnamed ENOTTY gotcha ;-) Hehe... > This is a great find, and a very impactful fix, as redirecting from > /dev/null is how we try to force a "go interactive if talking to > tty" program to realize that it is not talking to a tty. Can we fast-track this to maint? I will definitely ship this fix in the next Git for Windows version, but still, it would be nice to have this in git.git as soon as possible. Thanks, Dscho
