Re: git gui create desktop icon currently does not work

> Hi,
>
> I have a patch (further down) to this issue but I only tested this on
> Windows 7 and my virtual machine (XP) did not like it for some reason (it
> created the shortcut but the shortcut did not work). If anyone else can
> confirm that this patch actually works we can include it.
>
> Commit 3748b0 git-gui: update shortcut tools to use _gitworktree
> from Guiseppe does break the creation of Desktop shortcuts on Windows.
>
> I do not know whether this has worked with any tcl interpreter as it
> attempts to execute $_gitworktree as a command.
>
> Here is my fix:
>
> From 5c22c39d530ffb308826629d974048d30cd32e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:40:14 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] git-gui: fix usage of _gitworktree when creating shortcut for windows
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de>
> ---
>  git-gui/lib/shortcut.tcl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-gui/lib/shortcut.tcl b/git-gui/lib/shortcut.tcl
> index 79c1888..8cad0e2 100644
> --- a/git-gui/lib/shortcut.tcl
> +++ b/git-gui/lib/shortcut.tcl
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ proc do_windows_shortcut {} {
>                                        [info nameofexecutable] \
>                                        [file normalize $::argv0] \
>                                        ] \
> -                                       [file normalize [$_gitworktree]]
> +                                       [file normalize $_gitworktree]
>                        } err]} {
>                        error_popup [strcat [mc "Cannot write shortcut:"] "\n\n$err"]
>                }