A simple "git shortlog" outside of a git repository stalls waiting for an input. Check if that's the case by testing with isatty() before read_from_stdin(), and warn the user like "git commit" does in a similar case. Signed-off-by: Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michele Ballabio <barra_cuda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > A simple "git shortlog" outside of a git repository used to stall > > waiting for an input. Fix this by testing with isatty() before > > calling read_from_stdin(). > > I'd actually prefer doing what "git commit" does. Give a helpful hint > that it is waiting for input from the standard input, but do read from > standard input as the program is instructed to do. Ok. builtin-shortlog.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-shortlog.c b/builtin-shortlog.c index b3b055f..22668b4 100644 --- a/builtin-shortlog.c +++ b/builtin-shortlog.c @@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ parse_done: if (!nongit && !rev.pending.nr && isatty(0)) add_head_to_pending(&rev); if (rev.pending.nr == 0) { + if (isatty(0)) + fprintf(stderr, "(reading log message from standard input)\n"); read_from_stdin(&log); } else -- 1.7.0 -- 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