On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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> > --- > +`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. Consistent with the Unixy special-case for '2>&1', I wonder if the 'off' case would be more intuitively stated as '>/dev/null' or just '/dev/null'...
