Merge branch 'rs/empty-archive'

diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 650db90853c6ff2a769e981afd2954ffbb97469c..dc48159ccab1cf2f888a6169460c5fc60d0d1bab 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -1489,12 +1489,12 @@ sub _command_common_pipe {
                if (not defined $pid) {
                        throw Error::Simple("open failed: $!");
                } elsif ($pid == 0) {
-                       if (defined $opts{STDERR}) {
-                               close STDERR;
-                       }
                        if ($opts{STDERR}) {
                                open (STDERR, '>&', $opts{STDERR})
                                        or die "dup failed: $!";
+                       } elsif (defined $opts{STDERR}) {
+                               open (STDERR, '>', '/dev/null')
+                                       or die "opening /dev/null failed: $!";
                        }
                        _cmd_exec($self, $cmd, @args);
                }