RE: Problem with gitk on cygwin

From: Raimund Bauer <ray@softwarelandschaft.com>
Date: Mar 30, 2007, 07:36 UTC
Message-ID: <000201c7729e$1d7c40b0$0b0aa8c0@abf.local>
In-Reply-To: <20070330052533.GQ13247@spearce.org>

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> From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] 
> 
> I have seen this failure before, and its usually a result of 
> having your CYGWIN environment variable including 'notty':
> 
>   http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
> 
> Or maybe its the opposite.  I don't have access to my Cygwin 
> system right now, so I cannot check if I have notty, tty, or 
> just ommitted it entirely from my CYGWIN environment varible. 
>  But I think that's the issue.

Thanks a lot, that was the right pointer, even if I don't understand what went wrong. My CYGWIN environment variable was set to "ntsec tty", and after doing a export CYGWIN=ntsec in the shell (which according to your link shouldn't change anything) gitk magically started working!

> Shawn.

Thank you very much my saviour, now I can use gitk in office too ;-)

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best regards

  Ray