From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:47:41 GMT
Subject: Re: The health of gitk, was Re: [PATCH] gitk: check main window visibility before waiting for it to show
Message-ID: <71af9e7f-84b2-437e-7167-2dd0add02f1b@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <ddee92a7-3d1e-f869-9cc4-72b70eee0dd5@gmx.de>

Just one quick additional note:

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> This morning, I woke up to find a new PR in microsoft/git
> (https://github.com/microsoft/git/issues/704) that cherry-picks the patch
> that was offered in this here mail list thread. That patch is almost four
> years old, i.e. just about ready to enter pre-school and to learn how to
> read and write. Yet apart from Beat's confirmation that it fixes a real
> bug, this here patch has been treated with silence.

Even Homebrew is waiting with bated breath for that patch to be picked up:

- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/68865

- https://github.com/carlocab/homebrew-core/blob/a236345fdfbb37465edc0b5a0ad1a51dcbd84423/Formula/git-gui.rb#L19-L26

Ciao,
Johannes