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git-gui fails to start

Subject: git-gui fails to start

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3 messages between Jun 27, 2008 and Jul 4, 2008.

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Michael P. Soulier· Jun 27, 2008, 00:23 UTC · lore

Hi,

I'm on a CentOS Linux box, tracking 4.6 with Git 1.5.5.4 built from source.

When I run gitk on a repository it works fine, but nothing happens when I run git-gui. No error messages, nothing.

If I set GITGUI_VERBOSE, I get this

auto_load tk_optionMenu source /usr/share/tk8.4/optMenu.tcl auto_load tk::MenuDup source /usr/share/tk8.4/tearoff.tcl auto_load ::status_bar::new source /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/status_bar.tcl auto_load class source /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/class.tcl auto_load load_all_remotes source /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/remote.tcl auto_load spellcheck::init source /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/spellcheck.tcl

and then it just sits there.

I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.9.

How would I troubleshoot this?

Thanks, Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein

Shawn O. Pearce· Jul 2, 2008, 04:53 UTC · re: Michael P. Soulier · lore

Re: git-gui fails to start

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:

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> 
> I'm on a CentOS Linux box, tracking 4.6 with Git 1.5.5.4 built
> from source.
>
> When I run gitk on a repository it works fine, but nothing happens when I run
> git-gui. No error messages, nothing.

...

> and then it just sits there. 
> 
> I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.9.

I think this was fixed in gitgui-0.10.2, which did not ship with Git proper until 1.5.6-rc0. Now that 1.5.6.1 has been released I would encourage you to upgrade to the latest stable release of Git.

The issue was aspell earlier than 0.60 caused git-gui to deadlock because it didn't understand "$$cr master", which git-gui sends on startup when it launches the background spell checker.

You can also work around the issue by disabling the spell checker:

	git config --global gui.spellingdictionary none

-- 
Shawn.

Michael P. Soulier· Jul 4, 2008, 18:56 UTC · re: Shawn O. Pearce · lore

Re: git-gui fails to start

On 02/07/08 Shawn O. Pearce said:

> I think this was fixed in gitgui-0.10.2, which did not ship with
> Git proper until 1.5.6-rc0.  Now that 1.5.6.1 has been released I
> would encourage you to upgrade to the latest stable release of Git.

I'll try that, thanks.

Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein