From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:56:45 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk: 'show origin of this line' barfs if gitk run in subdir
Message-ID: <18746.23149.709046.770559@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081203222258.6db9b34e@crow>

Mark Burton writes:

> I think the same problem exists with the 'run git gui blame on this
> line' feature. It doesn't work when gitk is started in a subdir of the
> working tree but it does work when gitk is started in the top-level
> directory.

I have checked in a fix into my gitk.git repository at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/gitk/gitk.git.  However, there seems to
be a bug in git gui blame; it gives a "list index out of range" error
sometimes.

Shawn, to see an example of the error, get a current kernel tree and
do:

$ cd arch/powerpc
$ git gui blame --line=1183 2c5e76158fcea6e3b9536a74efa7b5e2e846d374 \
  ../../net/sunrpc/svcsock.c

Paul.