Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
Great, I'll reroll like this then. Thanks!
