Re: gitk: "Can't parse git log output: { }"

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Aug 9, 2013, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID: <87a9kr1e7i.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1308090727340.3907@ds9.cixit.se>

Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:

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> Hi!
>
> In my local clone of git.git, currently with the v1.8.4-rc2 tag
> checked out and built (and installed on the system), starting up gitk
> yields an empty window, with a dialog in front of it:
>
>   error
>
>   Can't parse git log output: { }
>
>   [ OK ]
>
> Has anyone else seen this, and know what might have happened? I do not
> get the behaviour in other repositories (including other clones of
> git.git), only this particular one.

Have you tried moving away .git/gitk.cache?

If that fixes it, perhaps you can share it for inspection.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch