Re: msysgit: does git gui work?

Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] wrote:

mingw only contains tclsh84 but not tclsh. This causes
the Makefile in git-gui to fail on the creation of
lib/tclIndex. Therefore git gui decides to take the slow
path of sourcing the files in lib explicitly but this failes
because they are sourced before git-version is defined.
Therefore blame.tcl reports the error mentioned above.

Johannes (or someone else from the msysgit team),
We should modify mingw to contain the symlink to tclsh.
Or something similar, at least 'tclsh' should be there.

Shawn,
The fallback mechanism of sourcing files from lib is broken.
Either git-version must be defined before sourcing them, or
the auto_index must always work.

*ouch*.  Yea, that happened when the git-version proc was introduced.
It doesn't get declared until after we have sourced everything,
but the things we are sourcing want it to be declared.

The short-term workaround is the obvious thing of just making
sure the auto_index works in the Makefile.  I'll try to reorder
things in git-gui so that the "source everything fallback" is
done only after git-version is declared.  Though that might be
difficult as that codepath assumes error_popup has been declared
and that's in something we are sourcing.

Ouch.

	me: Doctor, it hurts when I declare circular dependencies!
	dr: Well, don't do that son!

-- 
Shawn.