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Problem with gitk on cygwin

From
RBRaimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net>
Date
Mar 29, 2007, 10:21 UTC
Message-ID
<000001c771ec$12729c30$0b0aa8c0@abf.local>

When trying to use gitk from current cygwin-install, I get an error-dialog and no gitk-window.

Error title: "Error in startup script"
Error message:
--------------------------------
.git
    8 [main] git 1620 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated while executing
"exec git rev-parse --git-dir"
  (procedure "gitdir" line 6)
  invoked from within
"gitdir"
  invoked from within
"set gitdir [gitdir]"
  (file  "/usr/bin/gitk" line 6270)
--------------------------------
Setting the environment variable GIT_DIR produced a slightly different
error, but didn't help.
The new error message is:
--------------------------------
    6 [main] git 1268 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated while executing
"close $refd"
  (procedure "readrefs" line 47)
  invoked from within
"readrefs"
  (file "/usr/bin/gitk" line 6325)
--------------------------------

Did I forget to install some cygwin package (and it's only a problem of cygwin dependencies), or does gitk on cygwin have a problem currently?

-- 
best regards

  Ray
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  1. Raimund BauerMar 29, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceMar 30, 2007
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