Re: [PATCH] Teach git-mergetool about Apple's opendiff/FileMerge

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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+                opendiff $LOCAL $REMOTE -merge $path | cat

What's the purpose of this cat anyway?  It looks like an
expensive no-op to me.
  

If stdout is a tty, opendiff appears to background itself automatically. 
I assume he wanted to prevent that without losing any output from the 
command.

-Steve