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Re: gitk: git bisect view doesn't work

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Dec 1, 2008, 16:29 UTC
Message-ID
<49341101.8050400@viscovery.net>
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Johannes Sixt schrieb:
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> gitk bails out like this if I do "git bisect view":
> 
> $ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~2
> Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this
> [9a61060c7e0d112d0742f5b845210ea8c41b6c6b] Added encoding
> 
> $ git bisect view
> Error in startup script: can't read "notflag": no such variable
>     while executing
> "expr {!$notflag}"
>     ("--not" arm line 2)
>     invoked from within
> "switch -glob -- $arg {
>             "-d" -
>             "--date-order" {
>                 set vdatemode($n) 1
>                 # remove from origargs in case we hit an unknown option
>                 set origarg..."
>     (procedure "parseviewargs" line 21)
>     invoked from within
> "parseviewargs $view $args"
>     (procedure "start_rev_list" line 27)
>     invoked from within
> "start_rev_list $curview"
>     (procedure "getcommits" line 5)
>     invoked from within
> "getcommits {}"
>     (file "/usr/local/bin/gitk" line 10897)
Bisection points to this commit:
commit 2958228430b63f2e38c55519d1f98d8d6d9e23f3
Author: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 18 19:44:20 2008 +1100
    gitk: Fix switch statement in parseviewargs
-- Hannes
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Message 2 of 4 in “gitk: git bisect view doesn't work”
  1. Johannes SixtDec 1, 2008
  2. Johannes SixtDec 1, 2008
  3. gitk: Fix the "notflag: no such variable" error in --not processing.Alexander Gavrilov, Dec 1, 2008
  4. Paul MackerrasDec 1, 2008

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