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> On 20 Jul 2018, at 9:25, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>
> [re-adding cc:git]
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:38 AM Evgeny Cherpak <cherpake@me.com> wrote:
>>> On 20 Jul 2018, at 7:30, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:11 AM Evgeny Cherpak <cherpake@me.com> wrote:
>>>> Not sure what you referring to?
>>>> Is it alternative to gitk? How I install it?
>>>
>>> This: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui
>>>
>>> It's not an alternative to gitk, but complements it by providing
>>> ability to stage and create commits, show blame information
>>> graphically, etc.
>>>
>>> It's a standard part of the Git distribution, although it may not be
>>> installed by default, depending upon your platform and the packager.
>>> Some Linux distributions, for instance, may place it in a separate
>>> package for installation (named "git-gui" or something).
>>
>> Just tried it - it works, but doesn't get focus.
>
> Looking more closely, the code in "git gui" is catching and silently
> ignoring errors:
>
> ## On Mac, bring the current Wish process window to front
> if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
> catch {
> exec osascript -e [format {
> tell application "System Events"
> set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true
> end tell
> } [pid]]
> }
> }
>
> which explains why you don't see the "Not authorized to send Apple
> events" error you see with gitk, and also explains why the application
> doesn't get focus.
>
> So, updating gitk to mirror git-gui might be one way forward.