Calling methods which are not properties through use of dot notation is a
no-no in Apple's Objective-C 2.0 documentation. According to Apple it might
work but the compiler will not warn about any dangerous use cases.
The prominent example from the docs of how not to do it is "someObject.retain".
Here retain is a method and not a property so proper use is "[someObject retain]".
Unfortunately, often it is not clear if something in the API is merely an accessor
or a method which acts like an accessor but does more than the name might imply.
In this case, we can see this in PBEasyPipe where we have method calls like
"NSTask.standardOutput = ...". Even though they may look correct this can be
dangerous for obvious reasons. I assume hat this could also play a role in the appearance
of the "bad file descriptor" messages.
This adds a new class, PBEasyPipe, which can do most of the pipe handling
in an easy way.
We use this to call `git rev-parse --git-dir` to find our current git
repository. This means that we can now call GitX within a subdirectory :)
André Berg