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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce git version --list-features for porcelain use
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:13:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465FC735.C78ACD5@eudaptics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070601030959.GY7044@spearce.org

"Shawn O. Pearce" wrote:
> Why cat?  Tcl is so horribly broken that to get data for both stdout
> and stderr through a pipe I have to do something sick like:
> 
>         git fetch 2>&1 | cat
> 
> because in Tcl its actually:
> 
>         set rdr [open "| git fetch |& cat" r]
> 
> The |& means 2>&1| in normal shell.  But that means I have to have
> a process after it to receive the data.  Normally that's cat.
> But MinGW doesn't have cat.  (Nor do they have dog, but neither
> does Linux...).  So I need a way to redirect output.

Are you planning for the future? Currently, the MinGW port works only
with MSYS installed and $MSYS/bin in your PATH because the shell scripts
need an assorted set of POSIX tools. MSYS does ship 'cat', of course.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-01  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-30  4:31 [PATCH] Introduce git-supported-features for porcelain use Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-30 12:04 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-30 12:34   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-31  0:20     ` [PATCH] Introduce git version --list-features " Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-31  0:25       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-31  6:50       ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-31 13:30         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-31 23:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-01  3:09         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-01  3:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-01  4:14             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-01  7:13           ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-21  4:59 Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-21  5:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-21  6:10   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-06-21  7:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-21 11:58       ` Johannes Schindelin

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