Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Teach git-blame --gui how to start git-gui blame

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> This is only minor nuisance, but can we do something about this?
>> 
>>  $ git gui --version
>>  Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
>> 
>> I know it is from wish, not you, so I wouldn't insist, though.
>
> Actually that should be fixable.
>
> Should be as simple as using a Bourne shell script up front to
> check for "z$1" = zversion || "z$1" = z--version, and if so dump
> back the version, otherwise exec wish.  This is actually quite easy
> and won't change things for existing users.  I'll put a patch into
> maint tonight for it.