[PATCH] Show an error and exit if started in a directory where no .git could be found
From: Alex Riesen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:24
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
This is to help people starting gitk from graphical file managers where the stderr output is hidden. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <redacted> --- gitk | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index fc7cc8c..f5949a2 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk@@ -7575,7 +7575,10 @@ catch {source ~/.gitk} font create optionfont -family sans-serif -size -12 # check that we can find a .git directory somewhere... -set gitdir [gitdir] +if {[ catch { set gitdir [gitdir] } ]} { + show_error {} . "Cannot find a git repository here." + exit 1 +} if {![file isdirectory $gitdir]} { show_error {} . "Cannot find the git directory \"$gitdir\"." exit 1
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