Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 30, 2007, 02:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20070530025705.GN7044@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705300337510.4011@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> 
> BTW Almost any operation I run in git-gui fails, because cat is
> not found.

That's the stuff that goes into a console and dumps both to stdout and stderr. E.g. fetch, push, "compress database".

The issue is Tcl doesn't give me a way to get a pipe to both stdout and stderr. I cannot get two pipes, nor can I get a single pipe with both stdout+stderr redirected to that pipe. Unless I pipe it into another process. Enter `cat`.

Would we consider a "--stderr-to-stdout" long option to git itself? Then I could have git-gui do:

	git --stderr-to-stdout fetch

and bypass the pipe into cat. Yes, I know, its crap. Welcome to Tcl.

-- 
Shawn.

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