Re: MinGW port usable

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 10:16 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701301114590.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db660701300007v573832b5pc7ac41059dc4490e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Christian MICHON wrote:

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> On 1/30/07, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/30/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > > Try creating a desktop icon (Repository->Create Desktop Icon) and
> > > start git-gui from the resulting .bat file.  It *should* come up
> > > right on MinGW, but I'm only guessing here.
> > 
> > ok, yes it's working. :)
> > but call gitk from inside it fail :(
> > 
> > "error in startup script"
> > ( git-peek-remote is not working from git-gui, could be path related.
> > It's hard to tell why yet)
> > 
> > --
> > Christian
> > 
> 
> just to be more clear: when using the .bat shortcut, calling gitk
> > from within git-gui fails.

I guess you need to change the .bat shortcut, so that the tcl script is called via bash instead of directly from cmd.

Otherwise git-gui does not have a chance to find the MSYS environment.

Ciao, Dscho