Re: [PATCH] gitk - work around stderr redirection on Cygwin

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2008, 21:53 UTC
Message-ID: <487A7949.9050800@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxqdqxh7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Mark Levedahl wrote:
>>     
>>> Cygwin is *still* shipping with antiquated Tcl 8.4.1, and will continue
>>> to do so for the indefinite future. This version does not understand
>>> the "2>@1" redirection syntax, so such redirection of stderr must be
>>> done using sh.
>>>       
>> Ping. This bug is in 1.5.6.x, and thus also in the current Cygwin git
>> release: as a result, several gitk context menu items cause
>> errors. (Let me know if I should resend the patch).
>>     
>
> In the meantime, is it an option to apply this as a port specific patch
> when Cygwin and whichever distribution ship with old Tcl package their
> binary releases?
>
> Just checking how urgent this issue is (8.4.1 was from Oct 2002 if I am
> not mistaken) for maintainers of Cygwin port, and I am suspecting that
> kernel folks are somewhat busy near/around OLS/KS timeframe (but not me).
>
>

(I didn't trim the message as I've copied the Cygwin git maintainer).

I certainly have this patch in my tree so the folks I supply git to who use Cygwin have this patch. The question of whether to maintain this out of tree for the official Cygwin release is up to Eric.

Mark