Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Making (or amending) an initial commit on Windows fails because > redirecting something to '/dev/null' must fail - this device does not exist. > Redirect to 'nul' instead. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > I've noticed this while using the MinGW port, but I do not know whether > this is needed or even works on Cygwin. I had previously fixed this in gitgui-0.6.3, which is now also merged into `maint` in git.git. It was fixed by just removing that redirection block, in git 1.5.0 and later commit-tree doesn't print anything on stderr when making an initial commit. -- Shawn. - 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