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Diffstat (limited to 'perl/Git.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | perl/Git.pm | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm index 58414e3ec8..2f6b59a43b 100644 --- a/perl/Git.pm +++ b/perl/Git.pm @@ -742,7 +742,13 @@ sub _command_common_pipe { # warn 'ignoring STDERR option - running w/ ActiveState'; $direction eq '-|' or die 'input pipe for ActiveState not implemented'; - tie ($fh, 'Git::activestate_pipe', $cmd, @args); + # the strange construction with *ACPIPE is just to + # explain the tie below that we want to bind to + # a handle class, not scalar. It is not known if + # it is something specific to ActiveState Perl or + # just a Perl quirk. + tie (*ACPIPE, 'Git::activestate_pipe', $cmd, @args); + $fh = *ACPIPE; } else { my $pid = open($fh, $direction); |