# [PATCH] Associate 'git gui clone' with the git:// protocol

1 messages from 2008-10-03 to 2008-10-03. Participants: Petr Baudis.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15769

## Petr Baudis, 2008-10-03 12:19

Subject: [PATCH] Associate 'git gui clone' with the git:// protocol
Message-ID: <20081003121908.GD10360@machine.or.cz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20081003121908.GD10360%40machine.or.cz

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This MSysGit patch makes the installer register 'git gui clone'
as the Git URL protocol handler. This depends on the 'git gui clone'
functionality itself, of course - currently in the process of getting
accepted upstream (hopefully).

Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <petr.baudis@novartis.com>

---

Sorry if the line offsets are a bit off.

diff --git a/share/WinGit/install.iss b/share/WinGit/install.iss
index 05fdae6..82e8ecf 100644
--- a/share/WinGit/install.iss
+++ b/share/WinGit/install.iss
@@ -484,6 +484,16 @@ begin
             // so we continue.
         end;
     end;
+
+    if (not RegWriteStringValue(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,'git','','URL:Git Protocol'))
+    or (not RegWriteStringValue(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,'git','URL Protocol',''))
+    or (not RegWriteStringValue(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,'git\shell\open\command','','"'+AppDir+'\bin\wish.exe" "'+AppDir+'\bin\git-gui" "clone" "%1"')) then begin
+        Msg:='Line {#emit __LINE__}: Unable to set up the "git://" URL protocol handler.';
+        MsgBox(Msg,mbError,MB_OK);
+        Log(Msg);
+        // This is not a critical error, the user can probably fix it manually,
+        // so we continue.
+    end;
 end;
 
 {

```
