Re: Gitk doesn't work on macOS Mojave

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On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:38 AM Evgeny Cherpak [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 20 Jul 2018, at 7:30, Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:11 AM Evgeny Cherpak [off-list ref] wrote:

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Not sure what you referring to?
Is it alternative to gitk? How I install it?

This: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui

It's not an alternative to gitk, but complements it by providing
ability to stage and create commits, show blame information
graphically, etc.

It's a standard part of the Git distribution, although it may not be
installed by default, depending upon your platform and the packager.
Some Linux distributions, for instance, may place it in a separate
package for installation (named "git-gui" or something).

Just tried it - it works, but doesn't get focus.

Looking more closely, the code in "git gui" is catching and silently
ignoring errors:

    ## On Mac, bring the current Wish process window to front
    if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
        catch {
            exec osascript -e [format {
                tell application "System Events"
                    set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true
                end tell
            } [pid]]
        }
    }

which explains why you don't see the "Not authorized to send Apple
events" error you see with gitk, and also explains why the application
doesn't get focus.

So, updating gitk to mirror git-gui might be one way forward.