Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.

From: Mark Levedahl <fastestspinner@hotmail.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2007, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID: <BAY13-F4E31B150239BDBBE1AC18D0A50@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701310836q4222c82arcfda05d3594182af@mail.gmail.com>

I will resend tonight when I get access to an account where I can control the mailer.

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>From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
>To: "Mike Nefari" <fastestspinner@hotmail.com>
>CC: git@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:36:16 +0100
>
>On 1/31/07, Mike Nefari <fastestspinner@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>The gitk gui layout was completely broken on Cygwin. If gitk was started
>>without previous geometry in ~/.gitk, the user could drag the window 
>>sashes
>>to get a useable layout. However, if ~/.gitk existed, this was not 
>>possible
>>at all.
>>
>>The fix was to rewrite makewindow, changing the toplevel containers and
>>the particular geometry information saved between sessions. Numerous bugs
>>in both the Cygwin and the Linux Tk versions make this a delicate
>>balancing act: the version here works in both but many subtle variants
>>are competely broken in one or the other environment.
>>
>
>The patch is broken very spectacularly. How have you made it?
>Copy-paste in the browsers window?

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