"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > As a porcelain author I'm finding it difficult to keep track of > what features I can use in git-gui. Newer versions of Git have > newer capabilities but they don't always immediately get newer > version numbers that I can easily test for. > > This is a simple plumbing option that lets a porcelain ask the > plumbing for its capabilities, at which point the porcelain can > work around anything missing, or recommend to the user that they > upgrade their plumbing layer. > > Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Alex Riesen wrote: > > > > > git-version --features? > > > > Melikes. > > Good? Hmmm. I am not sure if you want list-features in the features list -- how are you going to test for it? Also I still do not understand why you want redirect-stderr. Are you writing for a shell-less environment? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html