From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:20:48 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Teach git-blame --gui how to start git-gui blame Message-ID: <7vps3oa7kf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <20070622044716.GG17393@spearce.org> "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > Junio C Hamano 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. If this makes life any harder to people on Windows, especially minGW, I would suggest against it.