On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Christian Couder wrote: > > It's now possible to run the tests like this: > > GIT_TRACE=9 make test 9>/var/tmp/trace.log Wouldn't it me _much_ more natural to instead do GIT_TRACE=/var/tmp/trace.log make test and just have git open that file with "O_APPEND | O_CREAT"? Maybe make the rule be that this only happens if the GIT_TRACE variable starts with a '/' character (ie you have to make it an absolute path). That way, if you want to do the fd thing, you can always just do GIT_TRACE=/proc/self/fd/9 make test 9>/var/tmp/trace.log although I really don't know how well that works across a fork/exec that may or may not be closing the file descriptor (I think it's much simpler and more obvious to just give the filename directly). Hmm? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: 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