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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: GIT on MinGW problem
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> BTW Almost any operation I run in git-gui fails, because cat is
> not found.

That's the stuff that goes into a console and dumps both to
stdout and stderr.  E.g. fetch, push, "compress database".

The issue is Tcl doesn't give me a way to get a pipe to both stdout
and stderr.  I cannot get two pipes, nor can I get a single pipe
with both stdout+stderr redirected to that pipe.  Unless I pipe
it into another process.  Enter `cat`.

Would we consider a "--stderr-to-stdout" long option to git itself?
Then I could have git-gui do:

	git --stderr-to-stdout fetch

and bypass the pipe into cat.  Yes, I know, its crap.  Welcome to
Tcl.

-- 
Shawn.