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[PATCH (GITK) 0/6] Runaway process and commit selection fixes

From
Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2008, 06:17 UTC
Message-ID
<200807271017.23272.angavrilov@gmail.com>

This series includes three patches that I sent 8 days ago, because I haven't received any reply so far.

These patches address the following problems:
1) Runaway processes (resend)
	As in the 'git gui blame' case, gitk back-end processes can sometimes
	run for a while without producing any output, e.g. diff-files on a slow
	filesystem.
	These patches make gitk explicitly kill its back-end processes.
2) Gitk stopping showing any diffs under random conditions.
3) Broken commit selection on view reload: gitk tried to preserve
  the selected commit, but usually failed because of code rot.
	I added selection preservation on Reload and Edit View.
	Update still should reset the selection to HEAD if anything changed.
	Also, if the previously selected commit was not found in the new view,
	gitk should fall back to selecting HEAD.
Alexander Gavrilov (6):
      gitk: Kill back-end processes on window close.
      gitk: Register diff-files & diff-index in commfd, to ensure kill.
      gitk: On Windows use a Cygwin-specific flag for kill.
      gitk: Fixed broken exception handling in diff.
      gitk: Fixed automatic row selection during load.
      gitk: Fallback to selecting the head commit upon load.
 gitk |  148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
Next: Alexander Gavrilov
Message 1 of 10 in “Runaway process and commit selection fixes”
  1. 0/6 Runaway process and commit selection fixesAlexander Gavrilov, Jul 27, 2008
  2. 1/6 gitk: Kill back-end processes on window close.Alexander Gavrilov, Jul 27, 2008
  3. 2/6 gitk: Register diff-files & diff-index in commfd, to ensure kill.Alexander Gavrilov, Jul 27, 2008
  4. 3/6 gitk: On Windows use a Cygwin-specific flag for kill.Alexander Gavrilov, Jul 27, 2008
  5. 4/6 gitk: Fixed broken exception handling in diff.Alexander Gavrilov, Jul 27, 2008
  6. 5/6 gitk: Fixed automatic row selection during load.Alexander Gavrilov, Jul 27, 2008
  7. 6/6 gitk: Fallback to selecting the head commit upon load.Alexander Gavrilov, Jul 27, 2008
  8. Paul MackerrasJul 31, 2008
  9. Alexander GavrilovJul 31, 2008
  10. gitk: Allow overriding the default commit.Alexander Gavrilov, Aug 3, 2008

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