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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk - restore operation of git-reset on Cygwin
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:46:15 +1000
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Mark Levedahl writes:

> Commit 6df7403a98737 modified the call to git-reset to invoke git
> directly rather than using "sh -c", but is redirecting stderr to stdout.
> This does not work on Cygwin, probably because the Tcl/Tk package is
> a windows program rather than Cygwin. The result is always an error
> message proclaiming 'can not find channel named "1"'. This restores
> invocation through sh -c.

Are you using Tk 8.4 or 8.5?  The man pages for 8.5 imply that the
2>@1 form should work for all platforms, but maybe that wasn't true in
8.4.  If that's the case it's worth mentioning in the patch
description.

Paul.