Hi,
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > From: chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Please make this line read like
>
> From: Chris Webster <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> i.e. the author should be the person who is signing off that patch.
This is most likely recorded as the commit's author in the commit
object... Chris, to fix it, make sure that your `user.name` is configured
correctly, and then call `git commit --amend --reset-author`.
> > Use File::Spec->devnull() for output redirection to avoid messages
> > when Windows version of Perl is first in path. The message 'The
> > system cannot find the path specified.' is displayed each time git is
> > run to get colors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris. Webster <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> There are a handful more instances of /dev/null found if you do
>
> $ git grep /dev/null -- \*.pl \*.pm
>
> The one in perl/Git.pm must be shared by scripts written in Perl, so
> it may be worth giving the same tweak to it, like this patch does to
> the highlight script.
I do not think that perl/Git.pm is intended to run with any random Perl
interpreter. It has to be one that has been verified to work correctly
with the Perl code in perl/, and that code is notoriously reliant on POSIX
behavior, hence our choice to go with MSYS2 Perl (there *is* a MINGW Perl
package in Git for Windows' SDK, but it will most likely not work, in
particular because of the missing Subversion bindings).
So I would restrict the search to contrib/\*.pl, contrib/\*.perl and
contrib/\*.pm. The stuff in contrib/ is supposed to be semi-independent
from the particular Git one is using (and from whatever Perl is shipped
with it, if any).
Ciao,
Johannes
> > diff --git a/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm b/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm
> > index 536754583..7440aa1c4 100644
> > --- a/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm
> > +++ b/contrib/diff-highlight/DiffHighlight.pm
> > @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ use 5.008;
> > use warnings FATAL => 'all';
> > use strict;
> >
> > +# Use the correct value for both UNIX and Windows (/dev/null vs nul)
> > +use File::Spec;
> > +
> > +my $NULL = File::Spec->devnull();
> > +
> > # Highlight by reversing foreground and background. You could do
> > # other things like bold or underline if you prefer.
> > my @OLD_HIGHLIGHT = (
> > @@ -134,7 +139,7 @@ sub highlight_stdin {
> > # fallback, which means we will work even if git can't be run.
> > sub color_config {
> > my ($key, $default) = @_;
> > - my $s = `git config --get-color $key 2>/dev/null`;
> > + my $s = `git config --get-color $key 2>$NULL`;
> > return length($s) ? $s : $default;
> > }
>
