[PATCH 3/3] mingw: document the experimental standard handle redirection

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

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Oct 30, 2017, 17:10 UTC

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<436f0fb010709fe0d90460dc7bc1b3482237b192.1509382976.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

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Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 Documentation/git.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 7a1d629ca06..10a98603b39 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -709,6 +709,23 @@ of clones and fetches.
 	the background which do not want to cause lock contention with
 	other operations on the repository.  Defaults to `1`.
 
+`GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN`::
+`GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT`::
+`GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR`::
+	(EXPERIMENTAL) Windows-only: allow redirecting the standard
+	input/output/error handles. This is particularly useful in
+	multi-threaded applications where the canonical way to pass
+	standard handles via `CreateProcess()` is not an option because
+	it would require the handles to be marked inheritable (and
+	consequently *every* spawned process would inherit them, possibly
+	blocking regular Git operations). The primary intended use case
+	is to use named pipes for communication.
++
+Two special values are supported: `off` will simply close the
+corresponding standard handle, and if `GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR` is
+`2>&1`, standard error will be redirected to the same handle as
+standard output.
+
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