Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Append ampersand to Target of lnk files created by do_cygwin_shortcut.

> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > Now, with the technical stuff out of the way: are you not changing 
> > behavior?  It seems that Linux users expect an program called by a 
> > menu item to block the application until the program returns, so that 
> > an error can be caught.
> 
> The menu item in question is "Repository | Create Desktop Icon".  It
> does not launch a program, but rather creates a shortcut (.lnk file)
> on the Windows desktop.
> 
> The purpose of the created shortcut is to make it easy for a user to
> launch git-gui for a particular repo in the future.
> 
> > Maybe the expectation is different on Windows?  But then, we'd still like
> > to catch errors and warn the user about it, right?
> 
> I believe a windows user would expect to see git gui launch when they
> click the shortcut; they would not expect (nor want) to see a cmd
> window open and remain open in the background.
> 
> msysGit avoids opening a command window altogether when it's Git GUI
> shortcut is used.  Ideally git on cygwin would also have shortcuts
> that simply open the GUI, but as a first step I saw we could at least
> make the command window politely disappear.