Re: [PATCH] git-gui: fix inability to quit after closing another instance
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Feb 1, 2023, 17:22 UTC
- Message-ID
- <xmqqy1ph1esd.fsf@gitster.g>
- In-Reply-To
- <pull.1446.git.git.1675239967804.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Orgad, thanks for a patch. Yadav, this came to git@vger.kernel.org, so I'm forwarding.
cf. Documentation/SubmittingPatches
== Subsystems with dedicated maintainers
Some parts of the system have dedicated maintainers with their own
repositories.- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pratyush Yadav:
https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui.git
"Orgad Shaneh via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
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> From: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
>
> If you open 2 git gui instances in the same directory, then close one
> of them and try to close the other, an error message pops up, saying:
> 'error renaming ".git/GITGUI_BCK": no such file or directory', and it
> is no longer possible to close the window ever.
>
> Fix by catching this error, and proceeding even if the file no longer
> exists.
>
> Signed-off-by: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
> ---
> git-gui: fix inability to quit after closing another instance
>
> If you open 2 git gui instances in the same directory, then close one of
> them and try to close the other, an error message pops up, saying:
> 'error renaming ".git/GITGUI_BCK": no such file or directory', and it is
> no longer possible to close the window ever.
>
> Fix by catching this error, and proceeding even if the file no longer
> exists.
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1446%2Forgads%2Fgit-gui-no-quit-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1446/orgads/git-gui-no-quit-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1446
>
> git-gui/git-gui.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
> index 201524c34ed..b00ee691e3b 100755
> --- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
> +++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
> @@ -2307,7 +2307,7 @@ proc do_quit {{rc {1}}} {
> #
> set save [gitdir GITGUI_MSG]
> if {$GITGUI_BCK_exists && ![$ui_comm edit modified]} {
> - file rename -force [gitdir GITGUI_BCK] $save
> + catch { file rename -force [gitdir GITGUI_BCK] $save }
> set GITGUI_BCK_exists 0
> } elseif {[$ui_comm edit modified]} {
> set msg [string trim [$ui_comm get 0.0 end]]
>
> base-commit: 2fc9e9ca3c7505bc60069f11e7ef09b1aeeee473