On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 12:52:04PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > ... and in Git for Windows' Bash, it would result in something like: > > $ git -P diff --no-index <(printf "a\nb\n") <(printf "a\nc\n") > error: Could not access '/proc/24012/fd/63' > > ... because the Bash is "MSYS2-aware" and knows about `/proc/` while > `git.exe` is a pure Win32 executable that has no idea what Bash is talking > about. > > Sadly, your patch does not change the situation one bit (because it does > not change the fact that the MSYS2 Bash passes a path to `git.exe` that is > not a valid Windows path, and neither could it, but that's not the problem > of your patch).
That tells me that I need to exclude Windows (excepting Cygwin) if I add a PROCESS_SUBSTITUTION test like Ævar suggested, and that indeed is helpful information. I'm sorry my patch won't be useful on Windows, though. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
