Timo Hirvonen wrote: > 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. 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. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - : 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