Re: GIT on MinGW problem

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 30, 2007, 02:39 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705300337510.4011@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <465CDE61.40103@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> Johannes Sixt escreveu:
> >> I'd suggest create a small C wrapper to launch gitk. It would be much
> >> easier that way IMHO.
> > 
> > Doh! You're right! It's even there already, right before our eyes:
> > 
> > pointy..clicky..pointy..clicky  (aka: cp gitk git-k)
> > 
> > $ git k
> > 
> > :)
> 
> how about 
> 
>   git tk 
> 
> that's more in line what actually happens. We can ship a gitk.bat
> that runs git-tk.
> 
> BTW, I got one report that gitk doesn't work with the tcl/tk that I
> ship.  Can I have other reports too? ie. 
> 
>   "It doesn't work for me, I use windows 92"

It worked for me, using Windows XP. (But I don't remember if I had to do some adjustments for it, or only for git-gui.)

BTW Almost any operation I run in git-gui fails, because cat is not found.

Ciao, Dscho