git-help--browse uses 'nohup' to launch some browsers. If the output is not redirected, 'nohup' creates 'nohup.out' and prints a warning about that. It was mighty annoying to see this warning as well as to have empty nohup.out files scattered everywhere you happened to use 'git help -w'. This patch redirects the output to /dev/null when a GUI browser is launched using the 'nohup' command; thus 'nohup.out' is not created. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx> --- Initially I thought to redict the output to $HOME/.git-nohup.out instead of /dev/null, so no output will be lost if an error happen. But the only error that a GUI browser may want to report to the stderr or stdout is a problem inside Xlib (like connection to X display or something like that), and when it happens you cannot run your favorite browser from the command line anyway. So, it is very noticeably and no problem to diagnose without any nohup.out created by git help. git-help--browse.sh | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-help--browse.sh b/git-help--browse.sh index 10b0a36..320e836 100755 --- a/git-help--browse.sh +++ b/git-help--browse.sh @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ case "$browser" in vers=$(expr "$($browser_path -version)" : '.* \([0-9][0-9]*\)\..*') NEWTAB='-new-tab' test "$vers" -lt 2 && NEWTAB='' - nohup "$browser_path" $NEWTAB $pages & + nohup "$browser_path" $NEWTAB $pages > /dev/null & ;; konqueror) case "$(basename "$browser_path")" in @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ case "$browser" in eval "$browser_path" newTab $pages ;; *) - nohup "$browser_path" $pages & + nohup "$browser_path" $pages > /dev/null & ;; esac ;; @@ -144,6 +144,6 @@ case "$browser" in eval "$browser_path" $pages ;; dillo) - nohup "$browser_path" $pages & + nohup "$browser_path" $pages > /dev/null & ;; esac -- 1.5.4 - 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