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Re: git-gui cannot find share/git-gui under cygwin

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jun 21, 2007, 03:30 UTC
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<20070621033030.GE8477@spearce.org>
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Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >Yuck.  I'm considering applying the following.  It works ok on Mac
> >OS X where the bug isn't triggered anyway.  ;-) I won't be able to
> >test on Cygwin until tomorrow.
>  
> sorry, no joy. The problem is that gitexecdir=/usr/bin, but...
Thanks for the feedback.
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> I don't think there is a portable solution here. Maybe just say
> 
>    if test "$(uname_O)" = Cygwin; then \
>        GITGUI_RELATIVE=; \
> 
> and be done with it.
Yup.  Done.  Now in my `maint`, `master` and `pu` branches.
-- 
Shawn.
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