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[BUG] No context menu in gitk on macos

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Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 23, 2025, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID
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# What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
1. create repo with one commit
2. gitk
3. right click on commit
# What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
See context menu like on Windows
# What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
Nothing
# What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
# Anything else you want to add:
[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.51.0
cpu: arm64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
libcurl: 8.7.1
zlib: 1.2.12
SHA-1: SHA1_DC
SHA-256: SHA256_BLK
default-ref-format: files
default-hash: sha1
uname: Darwin 24.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:28:30
PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64
compiler info: clang: 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)
libc info: no libc information available
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh
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