On 17/11/19 06:56AM, Jonathan Gilbert via GitGitGadget wrote:

 * The initialization code in git-gui.sh (which I'm assuming 
 translates
   somehow to git-gui.tcl in the installation?) now explicitly clears the

Well, the design is a bit strange. git-gui.sh happens to be _both_ a 
shell script and a Tcl script. When you run './git-gui.sh', it is 
executed as a shell script. That shell script then executes itself via 
'wish' (which is the Tcl/Tk windowing shell), and Tcl ignores the first 
"line" (it is actually the lines 3-10, but they all have an escaped 
newline so it is effectively a single line).

It has been like since the very first revision of git-gui. I wonder why 
the original author went with this instead of just doing something like:

  #!/usr/bin/env wish

which seems to work just fine on my quick testing, but that is another 
topic entirely ;)

   "Initializing..." status bar text, since the new status bar model won't
   do this automatically when operations are performed.

PS: I am in the process of reviewing the latest revision of the patch 
series. But I have been short on free time recently so it might take me 
a couple more days.

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav