msysgit/msysgit — pull request #152 by csware (2014-01-02 16:31:04+00:00)
Title: Perl readline creates empty sys$command files if no STDIN is connected

This was originally reported to TortoiseGit: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/issues/detail?id=1011

This patch was also reported to msysgit (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/oHDBhnAHIe4), MinGW (http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/patches/506/) and upstream perl (https://rt.perl.org//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115900) where it was finally accepted and applied (to version 5.18).

It was already reported one year ago (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/oHDBhnAHIe4 and https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/61#issuecomment-10695361).

https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/61#issuecomment-10695361 states that I should create a PR, so I do.