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git-gui cannot find share/git-gui under cygwin

From
Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2007, 12:28 UTC
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<4677CBD7.9050606@gmail.com>

Commit ea75ee3598ab6f8d0828f introduced logic to guess where share/git-gui/lib is at runtime, and this is broken on Cygwin. The basic problem is that:

/usr/bin = c:\cygwin\bin /usr/share = c:\cygwin\usr\share

The detection logic correctly finds the wish binary in c:\cygwin\bin, and then assumes that the share directory is c:\cygwin\share rather than c:\cygwin\usr\share. Given this, git-gui does not load as it cannot find its share/git-gui/lib directory

Mark Levedahl
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