Hi, On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Eric Wong wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > This simplifies code, and also fixes a subtle bug: when importing in a > > > > shared repository, where another user last imported from CVS, cvsimport > > > > used to complain that it could not open <branch> for update. > > > > > > The second hunk look sensible but I do not know about "use Fcntl" > > > since I do not see anything you are adding that starts to use it... > > > > O_EXCL. Without "use Fcntl;" perl says I am not allowed to use bareword > > things in strict mode or some such. > > Huh? I still don't see where O_EXCL is used. Yes. I did not make that point clear enough, I guess. My first approach was to reimplement git-update-ref in perl, which worked well enough, until I remembered that you could just call programs from perl :-) > > > > + system("git-update-ref refs/heads/$branch $cid") == 0 > > Passing args to system() in list form is always preferable in case > there's a shell-unfriendly variable: > > system("git-update-ref", "refs/heads/$branch", $cid) == 0 Old habit dies hard. --- git-cvsimport.perl | 6 +----- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl index 3728294..fe6298b 100755 --- a/git-cvsimport.perl +++ b/git-cvsimport.perl @@ -677,11 +677,7 @@ my $commit = sub { waitpid($pid,0); die "Error running git-commit-tree: $?\n" if $?; - open(C,">$git_dir/refs/heads/$branch") - or die "Cannot open branch $branch for update: $!\n"; - print C "$cid\n" - or die "Cannot write branch $branch for update: $!\n"; - close(C) + system("git-update-ref", "refs/heads/$branch", $cid) == 0 or die "Cannot write branch $branch for update: $!\n"; if($tag) { - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html