From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:46:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: avoid crash if closed while reading references
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904151846060.6814@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <87prfdnbck.fsf@users.sourceforge.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Pat Thoyts wrote:

> 
>   As recorded in msysGit issue 125 if the user closes gitk while it
>   reports itself as still reading references then Tk will crash in the
>   geometry management code. This has been fixed for Tk 8.5.7 and above.
>   This patch avoids the problem by flushing outstanding geometry events
>   before calling the readrefs procedure.
> 
>   See also http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=125
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>

This is commit 3d3ecb65e34a62b83648516150ec8a99e1b3ace7 in 4msysgit's 
'devel' branch now, and will be part of the next msysGit release.

Thanks,
Dscho