Hi Junio, On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > >> > +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'... > > > > I feel this is the wrong way round. `>/dev/null` may sound very intuitive > > to you, but this feature is Windows only. Guess three times how intuitive > > it sounds to Windows developers to write `>/dev/null` if you want to > > suppress output... > > It would be just as intuitive to write '2>&1' for dup-redirection, No. You misunderstand. I was mainly concerned with the `/dev/null`. Every Windows developer knows what `>file.txt` means, and many know what `2>error.txt` means. But `/dev/null` is not Windows, period. It is so not Windows that Git itself translates it to `NUL` (which you Linux die-hards won't have a clue about, I would wager a bet). > Perhaps "dup-to-stdout" or even just "stdout". No. The value is a path. I can special-case values that are not even valid Windows file names (such as `2>&1`). I cannot special-case values that are perfectly valid paths. > By the way, the description talks about "special values", but it > leaves it completely unclear what their normal values mean. True. Fixed. I also threw in an example for a pipe. Ciao, Dscho
