From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 01:50:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mingw: document the experimental standard handle redirection
Message-ID: <xmqqzi84p1ue.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1711021819430.6482@virtualbox>

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

>> If I was correct in assuming that "2>&1" is just as foreign as
>> ">/dev/null", then we should be shunning "2>&1" just like we shun
>> ">/dev/null".  That was all I meant to say.
>
> Did you know that `2>&1` works in Powershell?

No.  And that makes me curious if ">&-" is also there to replace
"off" ;-)