Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Kim Altintop <kim@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Perhaps an alternative would be:
>>
>> write_fetch_command () {
>> write_command fetch &&
>> echo "0001" &&
>> echo "no-progress" &&
>> cat /dev/stdin &&
>> echo "done" &&
>> echo "0000"
>> }
>>
>>
>> Which would then be called like so:
>>
>> write_fetch_command >pkt_cmd <<-EOF &&
>> want-ref refs/heads/main
>> have $(git rev-parse a)
>> EOF
>> test-tool pkt-line pack <pkt_cmd >in &&
>> test-tool serve-v2 --stateless-rpc >out <in &&
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure how portable that is, though. Maybe using `while read -r` instead
>> of `cat /dev/stdin`?
>
> If you drop /dev/stdin, the result would be emimently portable.
> "cat" without any argument reads from the standard input stream
> and copies it to the standard output stream.
Yep, with that tweak (using "cat" instead of "cat /dev/stdin") this
looks like a pleasant enough helper.
Jonathan
