gitk crashes when quitting gitk while it is is reading commits (was Re: gitk crashing on Windows.)

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Jul 28, 2008, 19:18 UTC
Message-ID: <E7C7B8BA-6050-40DE-917C-200EAE9CA6E8@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20080728T162025-946@post.gmane.org>

On Jul 28, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Eric Raible wrote:

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> Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic <at> docte.hr> writes:
>
>>   When you run gitk from a git repository on Windows it starts up and
>> starts updating its 'Row X/Y' output labels. This lasts for a few
>> seconds but if you terminate the application before this updating is
>> complete you get a Windows message stating:
>>
>>   'Wish Application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We
>> are sorry for the inconvenience.'
>>
>>   and the standard 'Send Error Report'/'Don't Send' buttons.
>>
>>   Hope this helps.
>>
>>   Best regards,
>>     Jurko Gospodnetić
>
> Though I can't find the relevant commit at the moment
> I believe that this is one already fixed in the latest
> from git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw/4msysgit.git.

I don't think so. The error Jurko reported might be the same error that was reported earlier and filed as issue 125:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=125

I don't think the problem is Windows-specific. At least on Mac I am seeing similar problems. When I hit CTRL-q while gitk is still reading the commits, it crashes with as segfault.

	Steffen