git-send-email: Accept fifos as well as files

When a fifo is given, validation must be skipped because we can't
read the fifo twice. Ideally git-send-email would cache the read
data instead of attempting to read twice, but for now just skip
validation.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 0b04ba32f0399d338be587ac2d9ad4620705c9a1..16d437526afd9fe0cf7318d35bc40059522bd636 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ for my $f (@ARGV) {
                push @files, grep { -f $_ } map { +$f . "/" . $_ }
                                sort readdir(DH);
 
-       } elsif (-f $f) {
+       } elsif (-f $f or -p $f) {
                push @files, $f;
 
        } else {
@@ -403,8 +403,10 @@ for my $f (@ARGV) {
 
 if (!$no_validate) {
        foreach my $f (@files) {
-               my $error = validate_patch($f);
-               $error and die "fatal: $f: $error\nwarning: no patches were sent\n";
+               unless (-p $f) {
+                       my $error = validate_patch($f);
+                       $error and die "fatal: $f: $error\nwarning: no patches were sent\n";
+               }
        }
 }