Re: [PATCH] Introduce git version --list-features for porcelain use

"Shawn O. Pearce" wrote:

Why cat?  Tcl is so horribly broken that to get data for both stdout
and stderr through a pipe I have to do something sick like:

        git fetch 2>&1 | cat

because in Tcl its actually:

        set rdr [open "| git fetch |& cat" r]

The |& means 2>&1| in normal shell.  But that means I have to have
a process after it to receive the data.  Normally that's cat.
But MinGW doesn't have cat.  (Nor do they have dog, but neither
does Linux...).  So I need a way to redirect output.

Are you planning for the future? Currently, the MinGW port works only
with MSYS installed and $MSYS/bin in your PATH because the shell scripts
need an assorted set of POSIX tools. MSYS does ship 'cat', of course.

-- Hannes