This feature is still highly experimental and has not even been contributed to the Git mailing list yet: the feature still needs to be battle-tested more. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- Documentation/git.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 7a1d629ca06..10a98603b39 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -709,6 +709,23 @@ of clones and fetches. the background which do not want to cause lock contention with other operations on the repository. Defaults to `1`. +`GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN`:: +`GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT`:: +`GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR`:: + (EXPERIMENTAL) Windows-only: allow redirecting the standard + input/output/error handles. This is particularly useful in + multi-threaded applications where the canonical way to pass + standard handles via `CreateProcess()` is not an option because + it would require the handles to be marked inheritable (and + consequently *every* spawned process would inherit them, possibly + blocking regular Git operations). The primary intended use case + is to use named pipes for communication. ++ +Two special values are supported: `off` will simply close the +corresponding standard handle, and if `GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR` is +`2>&1`, standard error will be redirected to the same handle as +standard output. + Discussion[[Discussion]] ------------------------ -- 2.15.0.windows.1
