{"thread":{"id":"9065","subject":"problem viewing git.git with gitk on cygwin","startedAt":"2007-07-16T19:30:36Z","lastAt":"2007-07-17T03:14:48Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Ray Lehtiniemi","Shawn O. Pearce"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"47580","messageId":"200707161330.36907.rayl@mail.com","threadId":"9065","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"problem viewing git.git with gitk on cygwin","fromName":"Ray Lehtiniemi","fromEmail":"rayl@mail.com","sentAt":"2007-07-16T19:30:36Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-16T19:30:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rayl@mail.com","avatar":null},"body":"\n\nhi all\n\ni'm seeing a problem with gitk on cygwin.  if i try and view the history of \ngit itself, it seems to stop at version 22dcbb.  interestingly, the next \ncommit 3ef378 has an embedded CTRL-Z character in the commit message.\n\npossible DOS EOF handling bug? or is there a repo setting i need to be \ntweaking?\n\nusing git version 1.5.2.2, installed using the cygwin package setup tool.\n\nthanks\nray\n"},{"id":"47607","messageId":"20070717031448.GI32566@spearce.org","threadId":"9065","inReplyTo":"200707161330.36907.rayl@mail.com","subject":"Re: problem viewing git.git with gitk on cygwin","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2007-07-17T03:14:48Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-17T03:14:48Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Ray Lehtiniemi <rayl@mail.com> wrote:\n> i'm seeing a problem with gitk on cygwin.  if i try and view the history of \n> git itself, it seems to stop at version 22dcbb.  interestingly, the next \n> commit 3ef378 has an embedded CTRL-Z character in the commit message.\n> \n> possible DOS EOF handling bug? or is there a repo setting i need to be \n> tweaking?\n> \n> using git version 1.5.2.2, installed using the cygwin package setup tool.\n\nNot Git's fault; Tcl on Cygwin honors EOF.  Because nobody would\never put that byte into a data stream.  ;-)\n\nLooks like gitk needs to add -eofchar {} to an fconfigure command\nbefore it reads data from Git.  Otherwise on Windows systems it\njust stops reading.  I better do the same to git-gui.  *sigh*\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"}]}