Re: Git Error Message

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Jun 5, 2017, 13:54 UTC
Message-ID: <D86B4F1CDEF64DEEB961900D30165624@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <20170605084839.mmirmdtvlpdqgwgo@tigra>

From: "Konstantin Khomoutov" <kostix+git@007spb.ru>

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> On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 01:13:05AM -0700, christienne shultz wrote:
>
>> I have installed the Git software and upon trying to update a
>> repository by the "open recent repository" link and am unable to
>> access the menu-or anything-from there.  Instead a window pops up with
>> the following error message:
>>
>> "\usage C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-GUI[
>> {blame|browser|citool}]
>>

Can you show the full error message / dialog window?

With a little bit of staring you will see the line numbers and a few clues about the stack history for the error (i.e. line number and variable)

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>> Can you please tell me what this error message means and how to fix
>> the issue?  Thank you!
>
> A shot in the dark until someone with access to Windows chimes in (it
> appears that the "open recent repository" feature of `git gui` is specific
> to Git for Windows): have you verified that repository actually exists
> on your filesystem?

Feature is common but the implementations look slightly different

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/git-gui/lib/choose_repository.tcl#L123 $opts insert end [mc "Open Existing Repository"] link_open

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/master/git-gui/lib/choose_repository.tcl#L152 -text [mc "Open Recent Repository:"]

I'm not sure how the differences are created between the two source codes.

The nominal upstream by Pat Thoyts has the same as the git.git version https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui/blob/master/lib/choose_repository.tcl#L123

--Philip

>
> Another interesting question is whether the pathname of that repository
> includes space characters which could in principle confuse `git gui`.
>