From: Mark Levedahl Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:39:45 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701310836q4222c82arcfda05d3594182af@mail.gmail.com> I will resend tonight when I get access to an account where I can control the mailer. >From: "Alex Riesen" >To: "Mike Nefari" >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 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? _________________________________________________________________ Get live scores and news about your team: Add the Live.com Football Page http://www.live.com/?addtemplate=football