Re: [PATCH] Teach git-mergetool about Apple's opendiff/FileMerge

[Steven Grimm <koreth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > +                opendiff $LOCAL $REMOTE -merge $path | cat
> What's the purpose of this cat anyway?  It looks like an
> expensive no-op to me.
>   

If stdout is a tty, opendiff appears to background itself automatically. 
I assume he wanted to prevent that without losing any output from the 
command.

-Steve
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