From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 15:40:45 GMT
Subject: Re: version 0.91 of gitk out now
Message-ID: <1116171645.15470.12.camel@dhcp-188.off.vrfy.org>
In-Reply-To: <200505151045.23198.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 10:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2005 09:11, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> >I have just put version 0.91 of gitk on ozlabs.org at:
> >
> > http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk-0.91
> >
> >(that's the actual script, just wget it and run it).
> >
> Been lurking here, waiting for an announcement of a snapshot of this 
> new gismo.  I wgot it, and chmodded it to 0766, but got this when its

Funny mode mask! :)

> run:
> [root@coyote git]# ./gitk-0.91
> Error in startup script: can not find channel named "stder"
>     while executing
> "puts stder "Error executing git-rev-tree: $err""
>     invoked from within
> "if [catch {set commfd [open "|git-rev-tree $rargs" r]} err] {
>         puts stder "Error executing git-rev-tree: $err"

Yes, this should be stderr. But that's not your problem. :)

>         exit 1
>     }"
>     (procedure "getcommits" line 8)
>     invoked from within
> "getcommits $revtreeargs"
>     (file "./gitk-0.91" line 993)
> 
> Typu?

You miss the right git binaries. Is git-rev-tree in your $PATH? Do you
have the "new" git binaries starting with git-*?

Kay