There is a problem in git-cvsexportcommit if I add a directory with some new files in git. It dies in safe_pipe_capture(). Analysis: foreach my $f (@afiles) { # This should return only one value my @status = grep(m/^File/, safe_pipe_capture('cvs', '-q', 'status' ,$f)); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # OK. Here it tries to run "cvs -q status src/newdirectory/newfile" [...] } [...] # An alternative to `command` that allows input to be passed as an array # to work around shell problems with weird characters in arguments # if the exec returns non-zero we die sub safe_pipe_capture { my @output; if (my $pid = open my $child, '-|') { @output = (<$child>); print "before close\n"; close $child or die join(' ',@_).": x$!x y$?y"; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # I changed it to see which error will be printed print "after close\n"; } else { exec(@_) or die "$! $?"; # exec() can fail the executable can't be found } return wantarray ? @output : join('',@output); } Output: [...] siprbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: cvs [status aborted]: no such directory `src/newdir' before close cvs -q status src/newdir/newfile.java: xx y256y at /home/peter/src/git-cvsexportcommit.perl line 317. ^^^^^ Don't be confused about the wrong line number. I have some other stuff (formating the commit message in a special way) in there but I can confirm that the script dies at the close of the pipe. Running from a shell the command manually: xp:~/project/$ cvs -q status src/newdir/newfile siprbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: cvs [status aborted]: no such directory `src/newdir' xp:~/project/$ echo $? 1 Excerpt from the "perldoc -f close" [...] If the file handle came from a piped open, "close" will additionally return false if one of the other system calls involved fails, or if the program exits with non-zero status. (If the only problem was that the program exited non-zero, $! will be set to 0.) Closing a pipe also waits for the process executing on the pipe to complete, in case you want to look at the output of the pipe afterwards, and implicitly puts the exit status value of that command into $?. Prematurely closing the read end of a pipe (i.e. before the process writing to it at the other end has closed it) will result in a SIGPIPE being delivered to the writer. If the other end can't handle that, be sure to read all the data before closing the pipe. So according to the manpage $! should be set to 0, because "cvs -q status src/newdir/newfile" exits with errorcode 1 as shown above. Could this have something todo that I have to use ssh to connect to the repo? (CVSROOT=:extssh:siprbaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/path/to/repo) Any ideas? Greetings, Peter Baumann - 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