Re: git-gui hangs on read

> Benjamin Collins <ben.collins@acm.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>>>  From the strace it looks like your aspell is not giving us a
>>>  reply to the "$$cr master" command.  What does this give you?
>> $ aspell --mode=none --encoding=UTF-8 pipe <<EOF
>>> !
>>> $$cr master
>>> EOF
>> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
>> & cr 70 5: Cr, cry, RC, CPR, CRT, Car, car, ctr, cur, CT, Ct, ct, C, R, c, r, Ce
>> , cir, Gr, Jr, Kr, gr, qr, NCR, OCR, VCR, CA, CO, Ca, Co, Cu, RR, ca, cc, ck, co
>> , cu, cw, yr, BR, Br, CB, CD, CF, CV, CZ, Cb, Cd, Cf, Cl, Cm, Cs, Dr, Fr, HR, Lr
>> , Mr, PR, Pr, Sr, Zr, cf, cg, cl, cm, cs, fr, hr, pr, tr
>>
> 
> Awww hell.  I think I see two issues.  The first is $$ maybe
> was expanded by your shell so aspell didn't see it as a command?
> I should have used <<'EOF' to avoid that, but I uh, forgot.
> 
> Can you upgrade aspell to 0.60.5?  Everywhere that I have used
> git-gui 0.10 that's the version I have had available.  I wonder
> if 0.50.5 has an issue here, or just doesn't support the "$$cr"
> command I was trying to use.  In which case I can try to make
> git-gui 0.10.2 detect the aspell version and avoid using $$cr
> if its an old version.
>