Re: problem viewing git.git with gitk on cygwin

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 17, 2007, 03:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20070717031448.GI32566@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707161330.36907.rayl@mail.com>

Ray Lehtiniemi <rayl@mail.com> wrote:

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> i'm seeing a problem with gitk on cygwin.  if i try and view the history of 
> git itself, it seems to stop at version 22dcbb.  interestingly, the next 
> commit 3ef378 has an embedded CTRL-Z character in the commit message.
> 
> possible DOS EOF handling bug? or is there a repo setting i need to be 
> tweaking?
> 
> using git version 1.5.2.2, installed using the cygwin package setup tool.

Not Git's fault; Tcl on Cygwin honors EOF. Because nobody would ever put that byte into a data stream. ;-)

Looks like gitk needs to add -eofchar {} to an fconfigure command before it reads data from Git. Otherwise on Windows systems it just stops reading. I better do the same to git-gui. *sigh*

-- 
Shawn.