Re: problem with git gui on cygwin.

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 11, 2008, 17:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20081111170557.GI2932@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20081111T155614-227@post.gmane.org>

Jim Jensen <jhjjhjjhj@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have been trying to use git for a small project using cygwin.  I copied my
> repository from one windows XP system to a Vista system using a usb drive.  On
> the new system when I use "git gui" I get a pop up that says "Git directory not
> found: .git"
> 
> This happens with git gui and gitk.  The command line programs I tried, git show
> and git status appear to work.

Huh. Sounds like the Tcl/Tk process isn't spawning the Cygwin git process in the right directory or something. Weird that both git-gui and gitk are giving you errors; usually its git-gui that is being paranoid about the repository structure and gitk works just fine.

You can try starting `git gui --trace` and see if that tells you any more detail, but it doesn't show cwd so it may not be all that useful to help you debug it.

-- 
Shawn.