Re: git-gui bugs due to dependency on system Wish on MacOS

From: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Date: Nov 17, 2021, 19:15 UTC
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Hi! We've received reports that git-gui is showing black windows upon upgrading to MacOS Monterey. It seems to be the same issue as [1], but somehow it's only appeared for our users on Monterey and not Mojave.

I dug a little deeper and I was able to fix the theming issues by using a different version of wish:

  $ brew install tcl-tk
  $ PATH=/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/bin:$PATH # This contains wish
  $ cd /path/to/git/git-gui/
  $ ./git-gui.sh

Note that I had to call git-gui.sh because that's the only entrypoint that doesn't use the system Wish referenced in the Makefile:

  TKFRAMEWORK = /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Resources/Wish.app

That said, Homebrew seems to have worked around this problem altogether by including their own Tcl/Tk dependency.

* Github Issue https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/39987
* git-gui formula https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-gui

Is this a fix that we should make in the git-gui project?

[1] https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui/issues/48