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Bad DWIM response when git gui cannot start

From
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Jul 20, 2009, 12:11 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.DEB.2.00.0907201309150.5423@ds9.cixit.se>

If git cannot start one of the external commands (at least some of them), the DWIM engine is a bit flaky:

   $ git citool
   /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-citool: line 10: exec: wish: not found
   git: 'citool' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
   Did you mean this?
       citool
   $ git gui
   /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-gui: line 10: exec: wish: not found
   git: 'gui' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
   Did you mean this?
       gui
-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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