Re: git-gui Error

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 13, 2007, 07:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20070213074519.GA32687@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070213065616.GA4195@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Starting git-gui without any parameters display an error message instead
> of a usage message:

Starting it with no parameters (`git-gui` or `git gui`) should
work just fine.  I do this all of the time on Mac OS X and Windows,
as it opens a commit window and keeps it running.

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> Error in startup script: child process exited abnormally
>     while executing
> "close $fd"
>     (procedure "load_all_heads" line 11)
>     invoked from within
> "load_all_heads"
>     invoked from within
> "if {[is_enabled transport]} {
>         load_all_remotes
>         load_all_heads
> 
>         populate_branch_menu
>         populate_fetch_menu
>         populate_push_menu
> }"

According to this backtrace, we were trying to startup the UI and load the branches, but:

  git for-each-ref --format=%(refname) refs/heads

returned a non-zero exit code or something else with it went wrong. Is this maybe a brand new repository? This is most certainly a bug in git-gui, but I'd like to understand more about the environment so I can track it down.

-- 
Shawn.