One of our Perl scripts that does a git clone suddenly
started to fail when I upgraded to git 1.8.4 from 1.8.3.1.
The failing Perl code used a construct like this:
Git::command_oneline('clone', $url, $path);
There is no error raised, but the directory specified by
$path is not created. If I look at the process using strace
I can see the clone taking place, but then it seems to get
a broken pipe since the code above only cares about the
first line from stdout (and with the addition of "Checking
connectivity..." git clone now outputs two lines to stdout).
If I change the code to:
my @foo = Git::command('clone', $url, $path);
it works as expected.
I have attached a simple Perl script that shows the problem.
Run it as "clone_test.pl <git url>". With git 1.8.4 it will
fail for the first two test cases, whereas with older git
versions it succeeds for all four test cases.
I hope this is enough information for someone to look into
this regression.
Best regards,
//Peter
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