Dennis Stosberg <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. I'm not Perl programmer so I don't know what would be the best way to do this. -- http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/ - : 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