Re: [PATCH] git help -w should not create nohup.out

Le vendredi 8 février 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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Hi,

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

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git-help--browse uses 'nohup' to launch some browsers.

Why?

"nohup" should be used to start a program that should persist even
after you logged out.  I fail to see how this should be sensible for
"git help -w".  So "off with the head", uh, do away with the "nohup", I
say!

True.  Christian, what was the reason you added nohup?

I think I was worried about something like this:

1) ssh -Y other_machine
2) git help -w, it opens my browser
3) open many other tabs in the browser
4) exit other_machine, oops my browser with all my tabs is gone

or

1) open my favorite browser and many tabs in it
2) ssh -Y other_machine
3) git help -w, cool it opens a tab in my already opened browser in 1)
4) exit other_machine, oops my browser with all my tabs is gone

I thought it would perhaps help, and it was better to be on the safe side. 
But I just tested a little and it seems it doesn't change anything.

Also there are some browser that are very verbose on the SDTOUT or STDERR 
(especially konqueror) and I thought the nohup would also help move the 
output out of the command line while not discarding it in case it's needed. 
But I agree that it's not very often usefull and anyway there are better 
ways to deal with it.

So no problem to do away with the "nohup".

Thanks,
Christian.