Reece Dunn <msclrhd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2009/9/16 Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>: >> 2009/9/16 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Josh Triplett schrieb: >>>> I considered adding a -f/--force option, like gzip has, but writing an >>>> archive to a tty seems like a sufficiently insane use case that I'll let >>>> whoever actually needs that write the patch for it. ;) >>> >>> How about '--output -' instead? >> >> You could always just add '|cat'. > > Except when running on Windows. Yes MSYS and cygwin provide a version > of cat, but this cannot be guaranteed (e.g. with the series to support > building with MSVC). In general, autodectection features sometimes fail, so it's good to have an explicit override option. > The `--output -` / `-o -` syntax looks reasonable I like this too. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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