From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:13:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Use git wrapper to run git-ls-remote.
Message-ID: <20060330201343.GH28682@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xqr3iwt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:08:02AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> writes:
>
>> From: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
>>
>> For some reason, the Cygwin Tcl's `exec' command has trouble running
>> scripts...
>
>Yup, I've seen this and have a "personal edition" workaround
>exactly like yours.  I haven't bothered to put it in even "pu",
>because I am reluctant to add an workaround to a problem I do
>not understand (and I haven't bothered to try understanding the
>problem which happens only on Windows ;-).
>
>Does anybody know what is going on?

Currently, Cygwin's tcl is a pure windows version which uses
CreateProcess to run stuff.  It doesn't know about scripts and possibly
doesn't even know about cygwin paths.

cgf