Re: [BUG] gitk error - can't read "arcnos()": no such element in array

From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2021, 03:11 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFOYHZAfQivHvs5=hGt-A1CbtwW-iJSwC1iFk7FY3wnNcVNVrQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 9:16 AM Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm hitting an error with gitk (gitk 1:2.31.1-0ppa1~ubuntu18.04.1) on
> a specific git repository.
>
> The repository is slightly odd in that it has some replace refs
> configured and multiple root commits. Although another similarly
> configured repo doesn't hit the error.
>
> The text from the application error pop-up is:
>
> can't read "arcnos()": no such element in array
> can't read "arcnos()": no such element in array
>     while executing
> "lsearch -exact $arcnos($l) $a"
>     (procedure "splitarc" line 21)
>     invoked from within
> "splitarc $olds"
>     (procedure "getallclines" line 33)
>      invoked from within
> "getallclines file11"
>      ("eval" body line 1)
>      invoked from within
> "eval $script"
>     (procedure "dorunq" line 11)
>     invoked from within
> "dorunq"
>     ("after" script)
>
> I've not been able to narrow down a specific reproduction method yet.

This seems to have fallen on the floor (so I pick memorial weekend in the US to give it a ping).

I have tried building gitk from source (git://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk) and still see the same problem. Still haven't reproduced it on anything other than my one repository.