From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk - work around stderr redirection on Cygwin Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:35:00 -0700 Message-ID: <7vfxqdqxh7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1213462668-424-1-git-send-email-mlevedahl@gmail.com> <487A6780.7030500@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: paulus@samba.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Levedahl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 13 23:36:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KI9Em-0003Mx-Bv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:36:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753173AbYGMVfJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:35:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753351AbYGMVfI (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:35:08 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:48890 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752914AbYGMVfH (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:35:07 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021452AAD5; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:35:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD04E2AAD4; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:35:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <487A6780.7030500@gmail.com> (Mark Levedahl's message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:37:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8FD76C6A-5123-11DD-883B-3113EBD4C077-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mark Levedahl writes: > Mark Levedahl wrote: >> Cygwin is *still* shipping with antiquated Tcl 8.4.1, and will continue >> to do so for the indefinite future. This version does not understand >> the "2>@1" redirection syntax, so such redirection of stderr must be >> done using sh. > > Ping. This bug is in 1.5.6.x, and thus also in the current Cygwin git > release: as a result, several gitk context menu items cause > errors. (Let me know if I should resend the patch). In the meantime, is it an option to apply this as a port specific patch when Cygwin and whichever distribution ship with old Tcl package their binary releases? Just checking how urgent this issue is (8.4.1 was from Oct 2002 if I am not mistaken) for maintainers of Cygwin port, and I am suspecting that kernel folks are somewhat busy near/around OLS/KS timeframe (but not me).