Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> - sed -e '1,/^$/d' <../commit | \ >> - eval "$filter_msg" | \ >> - sh -c "$filter_commit" "git commit-tree" $(git write-tree) \ >> - $parentstr > ../map/$commit >> + (sed -e '1,/^$/d' <../commit | >> + (eval "$filter_msg" || >> + die "msg filter failed: $filter_msg" 2>&3) | >> + (sh -c "$filter_commit" "git commit-tree" $(git write-tree) \ >> + $parentstr > ../map/$commit || >> + die "commit filter failed: $filter_commit" 2>&3)) 3>&1 | >> + grep . && die > > You introduce a handful of new forks and an exec. Isn't an intermediate > file much cheaper? The number of forks can be reduced by using { ...; } instead of ( ... ) here (though it is possible the shell optimizes them away). grep . should likely redirect its output with >&2 so that it ends up on stderr. I'd probably prefer grep ^ or grep '' since that matches empty lines as well. When done that way, I don't see a "handful of new forks". Instead of "grep ." one could also do something like if read line then while echo "$line" && read line; do :; done die fi which is fork-less. -- David Kastrup - 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