When trying to use gitk from current cygwin-install, I get an error-dialog
and no gitk-window.
Error title: "Error in startup script"
Error message:
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.git
8 [main] git 1620 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated while executing
"exec git rev-parse --git-dir"
(procedure "gitdir" line 6)
invoked from within
"gitdir"
invoked from within
"set gitdir [gitdir]"
(file "/usr/bin/gitk" line 6270)
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Setting the environment variable GIT_DIR produced a slightly different
error, but didn't help.
The new error message is:
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6 [main] git 1268 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated while executing
"close $refd"
(procedure "readrefs" line 47)
invoked from within
"readrefs"
(file "/usr/bin/gitk" line 6325)
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Did I forget to install some cygwin package (and it's only a problem of
cygwin dependencies), or does gitk on cygwin have a problem currently?
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best regards
Ray
Raimund Bauer [off-list ref] wrote:
When trying to use gitk from current cygwin-install, I get an error-dialog
and no gitk-window.
Error title: "Error in startup script"
Error message:
--------------------------------
.git
8 [main] git 1620 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated while executing
"exec git rev-parse --git-dir"
(procedure "gitdir" line 6)
invoked from within
"gitdir"
invoked from within
"set gitdir [gitdir]"
(file "/usr/bin/gitk" line 6270)
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I have seen this failure before, and its usually a result of having
your CYGWIN environment variable including 'notty':
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
Or maybe its the opposite. I don't have access to my Cygwin system
right now, so I cannot check if I have notty, tty, or just ommitted
it entirely from my CYGWIN environment varible. But I think that's
the issue.
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Shawn.
From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org]
I have seen this failure before, and its usually a result of
having your CYGWIN environment variable including 'notty':
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
Or maybe its the opposite. I don't have access to my Cygwin
system right now, so I cannot check if I have notty, tty, or
just ommitted it entirely from my CYGWIN environment varible.
But I think that's the issue.
Thanks a lot, that was the right pointer, even if I don't
understand what went wrong.
My CYGWIN environment variable was set to "ntsec tty", and after
doing a
export CYGWIN=ntsec
in the shell (which according to your link shouldn't change
anything) gitk magically started working!
Shawn.
Thank you very much my saviour, now I can use gitk in office too ;-)
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best regards
Ray