Re: MinGW port usable

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Christian MICHON wrote:

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just to be more clear: when using the .bat shortcut, calling gitk

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from within git-gui fails.

I guess you need to change the .bat shortcut, so that the tcl script is 
called via bash instead of directly from cmd.

Otherwise git-gui does not have a chance to find the MSYS environment.

Hmmph.  The [is_Cygwin] test within git-gui causes it to setup the
.bat shortcut using:

  $(cygpath --windows /bin/sh) --login -c 'git git-gui'

for exactly that reason.  I didn't think that with MSYS there was
environment to hand down through a shell's init scripts.  I thought
it was all coming from Windows itself.  Oops.

When starting gitk, git-gui assumes (rightly or wrongly) that gitk
is a Tcl/Tk script and launches it with the same Tcl interpreter
that is running git-gui.  I did that to bypass the unnecessary
fork/exec of a shell just to enter a wish process.  I had assumed
that would also work well on the MSYS case.  Apparently not.

Patches to git-gui would be welcome.  It will probably be a few weeks
before I can get an MSYS+Git configuration working that I can test
git-gui against.  I'm just swamped with too many tasks right now,
and this, although interesting enough to fix, is likely to take a
back seat.

-- 
Shawn.