From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 02:57:05 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem
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.