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.schinde...@gmx.de>
---
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.
+
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