From: Abdelrazak Younes Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:08:09 GMT Subject: Re: [QGit bug] git user settings not retrieved when launched for Windows explorer Message-ID: <48EB5129.2010407@lyx.org> In-Reply-To: On 07/10/2008 13:57, Marco Costalba wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>> Sound like a problem of startup directory: on the command line you >>> start from the right directory...when you double click on which repo >>> qgit is open ? >>> >>> >> None of course. But when I open a repository manually I would expect that >> this is properly filled in. >> >> > > In git.cpp, Git::userInfo() function get info about user by means of > 'git config' calls, my guess (I cannot it test now) is that 'git > config' does not work if we are not in a git directory. > OK, I'll have a look, thanks. > > >> And if I launch qgit with the context menu (right clicking a directory in >> the Explorer), qgit never managed to open the repository. >> >> > > This is a bug that I never managed to get rid of :-( > > It is strange because it works if you try in a subdirectory, as > example try right clicking on 'src' directory of qgit project. > I tried and it doesn't work this way either; the statusbar tells me that this is 'Not a git archive' :-( Abdel.