From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 03:46:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk - restore operation of git-reset on Cygwin
Message-ID: <18486.15879.551874.408651@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <1211511636-3552-1-git-send-email-mlevedahl@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl writes:

> Commit 6df7403a98737 modified the call to git-reset to invoke git
> directly rather than using "sh -c", but is redirecting stderr to stdout.
> This does not work on Cygwin, probably because the Tcl/Tk package is
> a windows program rather than Cygwin. The result is always an error
> message proclaiming 'can not find channel named "1"'. This restores
> invocation through sh -c.

Are you using Tk 8.4 or 8.5?  The man pages for 8.5 imply that the
2>@1 form should work for all platforms, but maybe that wasn't true in
8.4.  If that's the case it's worth mentioning in the patch
description.

Paul.