Re: Problem with gitk on cygwin

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 30, 2007, 05:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20070330052533.GQ13247@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <000001c771ec$12729c30$0b0aa8c0@abf.local>

Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net> wrote:

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> When trying to use gitk from current cygwin-install, I get an error-dialog
> and no gitk-window.
> 
> Error title: "Error in startup script"
> Error message:
> --------------------------------
> .git
>     8 [main] git 1620 tty_list::allocate: No tty allocated while executing
> "exec git rev-parse --git-dir"
>   (procedure "gitdir" line 6)
>   invoked from within
> "gitdir"
>   invoked from within
> "set gitdir [gitdir]"
>   (file  "/usr/bin/gitk" line 6270)
> --------------------------------

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.

-- 
Shawn.