Merge branch 'js/mingw-redirect-std-handles' into maint

MinGW updates.

* js/mingw-redirect-std-handles:
  mingw: document the standard handle redirection
  mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
  mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles

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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 7a1d629ca0..463b0eb0f5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -709,6 +709,24 @@ 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`::
+	Windows-only: allow redirecting the standard input/output/error
+	handles to paths specified by the environment variables. 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
+	(e.g. `\\.\pipe\my-git-stdin-123`).
++
+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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