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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Git wrapper: add --redirect-stderr option
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 05:12:03 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

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

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Not really.  It requires 1.5.0 and later, but after that it should
> be OK with any 1.5.x version of Git.  Junio graciously bundles it
> with core Git, to help it get a wider audience.  ;-)
> 
> However I'd like to let it be smarter about what it expects from the
> underling core Git.  I'm sure the other Porcelain authors would also
> like to be able to determine if they can rely on something, or not.
> At the least we can just tell the user "Your Git old.  Upgrade to new
> Git today!".  Yes, bad Engrish included... ;-)

When in doubt, you can always test the return value to check if the 
command line option is accepted...

Ciao,
Dscho