Re: msysgit: does git gui work?

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Aug 9, 2007, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <E886F099-5E9F-4785-A560-F9AAAA4E4C1F@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <3CD6111C-13B5-444C-A28C-A7445C8A199B@zib.de>

On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

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> Does 'git gui' work for you in msysgit?
>
> I get
>
> Invalid command name "git-version"
>   while executing
> "git-version >= 1.5.3"
>    (in namespace eval "::blame" script line 36)
> [...]
>
> with msysgit (v1.5.3-rc2-690-g8ca1f6a)

Ok this is a bit complex but simple to solve: I created a symlink from tclsh84.exe to tclsh.exe, that is

    cd /mingw/bin
    ln -s tclsh84.exe tclsh.exe

And than run

    make install

[ offtopic: I also hacked the Makefile to set GIT_VERSION to normal version number, like 99.9, because git gui complained that it failed to parse the version number.

I'll look into this later. ]

Now the long story.

mingw only contains tclsh84 but not tclsh. This causes the Makefile in git-gui to fail on the creation of lib/tclIndex. Therefore git gui decides to take the slow path of sourcing the files in lib explicitly but this failes because they are sourced before git-version is defined. Therefore blame.tcl reports the error mentioned above.

Johannes (or someone else from the msysgit team), We should modify mingw to contain the symlink to tclsh. Or something similar, at least 'tclsh' should be there.

Shawn, The fallback mechanism of sourcing files from lib is broken. Either git-version must be defined before sourcing them, or the auto_index must always work.

	Steffen