Re: ttk error when starting git gui

> Hello,
> 
> I get the following error when trying to start git gui:
> 
> Error in startup script: wrong # args: should be "ttk::style theme use
> theme"
>     while executing
> "ttk::style theme use"
>     (procedure "ttext" line 4)
>     invoked from within
> "ttext $ui_workdir -background white -foreground black \
>         -borderwidth 0 \
>         -width 20 -height 10 \
>         -wrap none \
>         -takefocus 1 -highlightthickness 1\
>         ..."
>     (file
> "/home/dshrader/opt/toss2/common/git/2.12.2/libexec/git-core/git-gui"
> line 3190)
> 
> I get this error with the latest released version 2.12.2. Two older git
> versions are also available on this system, and neither has this issue.
> Those older versions are 1.7.1 and 2.3.3. I don't see a call to ttext in
> those corresponding git-gui executables, so that is probably why they work.
> 
> Here are the steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1) cd to existing git repository
> 2) run 'git gui' (no gui comes up, and the error is printed in the
> terminal)
> 
> I'm running on a RHEL6 based system. Do I have an insufficient version
> of whatever git gui uses for graphics in the later versions of git? When
> I try 2.12.2 on my personal workstation running Fedora 25, I don't see
> the same issue.
> 
> Thank you very much for your time,
> David
>