[PATCH v1 01/11] git-gui: allow specifying path '.' to the browser

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: May 14, 2026, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20260514143322.865587-2-mlevedahl@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260514143322.865587-1-mlevedahl@gmail.com>

Invoking "git-gui browser rev ." should show the file browser for the commitish rev, starting at the root directory. This errors out in normalize_relpath because the '.' is removed, yielding an empty list as argument to [file join ...]. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
---
 git-gui.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index 23fe76e..6048f92 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -2965,7 +2965,11 @@ proc normalize_relpath {path} {
 		}
 		lappend elements $item
 	}
-	return [eval file join $elements]
+	if {$elements ne {}} {
+		return [eval file join $elements]
+	} else {
+		return {}
+	}
 }
 
 # -- Not a normal commit type invocation?  Do that instead!

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