Re: problem with git gui on cygwin.

Shawn O. Pearce, Tue, Nov 11, 2008 18:05:57 +0100:

Jim Jensen [off-list ref] wrote:

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I have been trying to use git for a small project using cygwin.  I copied my
repository from one windows XP system to a Vista system using a usb drive.  On
the new system when I use "git gui" I get a pop up that says "Git directory not
found: .git"

This happens with git gui and gitk.  The command line programs I tried, git show
and git status appear to work.

Huh.  Sounds like the Tcl/Tk process isn't spawning the Cygwin git
process in the right directory or something.  Weird that both git-gui
and gitk are giving you errors; usually its git-gui that is being
paranoid about the repository structure and gitk works just fine.

You can try starting `git gui --trace` and see if that tells you
any more detail, but it doesn't show cwd so it may not be all that
useful to help you debug it.

Maybe the fact that wish is not a cygwin application (doesn't use use
cygwin1.dll) is a hint?