Re: ttk error when starting git gui

From: Jessie Hernandez <git@jessiehernandez.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2017, 06:44 UTC
Message-ID: <916067befdc828e5d33dd3c1817989e7.squirrel@mail.jessiehernandez.com>
In-Reply-To: <0fc69c73-73aa-5355-264b-a7c55377eec2@lanl.gov>

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> 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

Hi David,

I also got this problem when I wanted to build and run git 2.10.x. I have added the following change to git-gui/git-gui.sh

diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
index 5bc21b878..5ce59ef94 100755
--- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ set default_config(gui.fontui) [font configure font_ui]
 set default_config(gui.fontdiff) [font configure font_diff]
 # TODO: this option should be added to the git-config documentation
 set default_config(gui.maxfilesdisplayed) 5000
-set default_config(gui.usettk) 1
+set default_config(gui.usettk) 0
 set default_config(gui.warndetachedcommit) 1
 set default_config(gui.tabsize) 8
 set font_descs {


If you guys want I can submit it as a patch.
But i assume that 'fixing' this by disabling the feature is not really
what we want.

-----------------
Jessie Hernandez


> --
> David Shrader
> HPC-ENV High Performance Computer Systems
> Los Alamos National Lab
> Email: dshrader <at> lanl.gov
>
>