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

2017-11-03 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Junio, On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin 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 th

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

2017-11-02 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin 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 ">

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

2017-11-02 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Junio, On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > >> > I feel this is the wrong way round. `>/dev/null` may sound very intuitive > >> > to you, but this feature is Windows only. Guess three times how intuitive > >> > it sounds to Windows developers to write `

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

2017-11-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin writes: >> > I feel this is the wrong way round. `>/dev/null` may sound very intuitive >> > to you, but this feature is Windows only. Guess three times how intuitive >> > it sounds to Windows developers to write `>/dev/null` if you want to >> > suppress output... >> >> It wou

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

2017-11-01 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Junio, On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > >> > +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 a

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

2017-10-31 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Schindelin writes: >> > +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. >> >> Consistent with the Unixy specia

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

2017-10-31 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Eric, On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: > > This feature is still highly experimental and has not even been > > contributed to the Git mailing list yet: the feature still needs to be > > battle-tested more. > > > > Signed

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

2017-10-30 Thread Eric Sunshine
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > This feature is still highly experimental and has not even been > contributed to the Git mailing list yet: the feature still needs to be > battle-tested more. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin > --- > +`GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN`:: > +`G

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

2017-10-30 Thread Johannes Schindelin
This feature is still highly experimental and has not even been contributed to the Git mailing list yet: the feature still needs to be battle-tested more. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- Documentation/git.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documenta