Re: git-gui fails to start

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 2, 2008, 04:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20080702045352.GM11793@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080627002307.GE2620@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:

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> 
> I'm on a CentOS Linux box, tracking 4.6 with Git 1.5.5.4 built
> from source.
>
> When I run gitk on a repository it works fine, but nothing happens when I run
> git-gui. No error messages, nothing.

...

> and then it just sits there. 
> 
> I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.9.

I think this was fixed in gitgui-0.10.2, which did not ship with Git proper until 1.5.6-rc0. Now that 1.5.6.1 has been released I would encourage you to upgrade to the latest stable release of Git.

The issue was aspell earlier than 0.60 caused git-gui to deadlock because it didn't understand "$$cr master", which git-gui sends on startup when it launches the background spell checker.

You can also work around the issue by disabling the spell checker:

	git config --global gui.spellingdictionary none

-- 
Shawn.