Hi,
I am considering converting from CVS over to using git. I'm currently
using git version 1.5.6.5 on Debian Linux "testing". One of the first
things I ran into was having to set PAGER to "cat" to avoid the
problems when running git from anything other than a terminal. The
second thing is that "git pull" (and possibly other commands) are
emitting ^M (octal 013) codes on output, possibly caused by the same
assumption as causes the problem that is fixed by setting PAGER to
"cat". This is not a big deal on small repos, but on larger ones I
actually do want to see status line output (or be given some option to
see them), so that I can then run "tail -1lf" on the log file that is
written during a long "git pull" operation.
Is there some configuration option or some environment variable I can
set that tells git to stop treating every invocation as if it is
coming from a terminal?
You can reproduce this on Linux with the following script (look for
the CR codes on the final git pull at the end of the script):
-- cut below this line ---
#!/bin/sh
# I could have simply used "set -x" here but then I wouldn't see the
# redirection syntax like ">file1", so instead use a PrintRun
# function:
PrintRun ()
{
echo "COMMAND: $*"
eval "$*; exitcode=\$?"
if [ $exitcode != 0 ]
then
echo "ERROR: Command failed: $*"
exit 1
fi
}
# Failed attempt at hacking around git insisting on using ^M codes on stderr:
# cat >/tmp/git_pager <<EOF
# sed 's%^% >> %g'
# # This doesn't work either since the output I want to filter is on stderr
# # tr '\013' '\012'
# EOF
# chmod a+x /tmp/git_pager
# GIT_PAGER=/tmp/git_pager; export GIT_PAGER
# Clear out the scratch areas:
PrintRun rm -rf /tmp/git_area1
PrintRun rm -rf /tmp/git_area2
# Populate the initial area:
PrintRun mkdir -p /tmp/git_area1
PrintRun cd /tmp/git_area1
PrintRun git init
PrintRun "echo a new file 1 >file1"
PrintRun "echo a new file 2 >file2"
PrintRun git add file1
PrintRun git add file2
PrintRun git status
PrintRun "git commit -m \"first commit in git_area1\""
PrintRun find .
# Clone from the first area into a second area and add a file there:
PrintRun rm -rf /tmp/git_area2
PrintRun cd /tmp
PrintRun git clone /tmp/git_area1 git_area2
PrintRun cd /tmp/git_area2
PrintRun find .
PrintRun "echo a new file 3 >file3"
PrintRun git add file3
PrintRun git status
PrintRun "git commit -m \"second commit but in git_area2\""
PrintRun "git status; true" # true means don't fail inside PrintRun
PrintRun "git status; true" # true means don't fail inside PrintRun
# Now attempt to somehow refresh (what is the "git" word for "cvs update"?) into the first area:
PrintRun cd /tmp/git_area1
PrintRun "git status; true" # true means don't fail inside PrintRun
PrintRun "git diff; true" # true means don't fail inside PrintRun
# PrintRun "git pull /tmp/git_area2 master 2>&1"
# PrintRun "git pull /tmp/git_area2 master 2>&1 | tr '\013' '\012'"
PrintRun git pull /tmp/git_area2 master
-- cut above this line ---
Attempts at hacking around the problem: Redirecting stderr output from
git and then manually translating CR codes into LF codes yeilds the
following output (but I can't do this in practice and, no, I can't use
aliases in Bourne scripts (Bash/KSH yes, Bourne no)):
git> COMMAND: git pull /tmp/git_area2 master 2>&1
git> remote: Counting objects: 4, done.
git> remote: Compressing objects: 50% (1/2)
git> --> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2)
git> --> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2 )Unpacking objects: 33% (1/3)
git> --> Unpacking objects: 66% (2/3)
git> --> Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3)
git> --> Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
git> remote: , done.
git> remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
git> From /tmp/git_area2
git> * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
git> Updating b2f942d..4f9ba90
git> Fast forward
git> file3 | 1 +
git> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
git> create mode 100644 file3
Trying to automatically filter this with redirection and use of tr
fails to show the progress output completely which is a non-option
either:
git> COMMAND: git pull /tmp/git_area2 master 2>&1 | tr '\013' '\012'
git> From /tmp/git_area2
git> * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
git> Updating 49b1897..bb5f57c
git> Fast forward
git> file3 | 1 +
git> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
git> create mode 100644 file3
Thanks,
bgoodr
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