Re: [PATCH] Git wrapper: add --redirect-stderr option

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > With this option, stderr is redirected to stdout. The short option is '-2'.
> > 
> > Alternatively, you can say '--redirect-stderr=<filename>' to redirect
> > stderr to a file.
> 
> Yes, that works nicely.  ;-)
> 
> Now here's my other problem: How does git-gui know the underlying
> git will accept --redirect-stderr?  Or that it supports any other
> recent features we've developed?

I thought that git-gui is now really closely coupled with core-git.

> Sure I can check the version, but until I know what version of Git
> its shipping in I cannot put the check into git-gui.
> 
> I was thinking about adding a "git-supported-features" plumbing
> command that prints back feature code strings, much as our
> network protocol supplies back the few feature codes it supports
> ("multi-ack", "sideband", etc.).

Problem is: it would be more interesting to have this program in _older_ 
versions... ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho