@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def _bchr(c):
 # Documentation
 ## @{
 
-def handle_process_output(process, stdout_handler, stderr_handler, finalizer):
+def 9(process, stdout_handler, stderr_handler, finalizer):
     """Registers for notifications to lean that process output is ready to read, and dispatches lines to
     the respective line handlers. We are able to handle carriage returns in case progress is sent by that
     mean. For performance reasons, we only apply this to stderr.
@@ -193,14 +193,24 @@ def _deplete_buffer(fno, handler, buf_list, wg=None):
     else:
         # Oh ... probably we are on windows. select.select() can only handle sockets, we have files
         # The only reliable way to do this now is to use threads and wait for both to finish
+        def _handle_lines(fd, handler, wg):
+            for line in fd:
+                line = line.decode(defenc)
+                if line and handler:
+                    handler(line)
+            if wg:
+                wg.done()
+
         # Since the finalizer is expected to wait, we don't have to introduce our own wait primitive
         # NO: It's not enough unfortunately, and we will have to sync the threads
         wg = WaitGroup()
-        for fno, (handler, buf_list) in fdmap.items():
+        for fd, handler in zip((process.stdout, process.stderr),
+                    (stdout_handler, stderr_handler)):
             wg.add(1)
-            t = threading.Thread(target=lambda: _deplete_buffer(fno, handler, buf_list, wg))
+            t = threading.Thread(target=_handle_lines, args=(fd, handler, wg))
+            t.setDaemon(True)
             t.start()
-        # end
+
         # NOTE: Just joining threads can possibly fail as there is a gap between .start() and when it's
         # actually started, which could make the wait() call to just return because the thread is not yet
         # active
 
@@ -238,7 +238,9 @@ def counter_stderr(line):
                                 stdin=None,
                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                 stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
-                                shell=False)
+                                shell=False,
+                                creationflags=Git.CREATE_NO_WINDOW if sys.platform == 'win32' else 0,
+                                )
 
         handle_process_output(proc, counter_stdout, counter_stderr, lambda proc: proc.wait())