# [GIT GUI PATCH] git-gui: open console when using --trace on windows

1 messages from 2012-03-23 to 2012-03-23. Participants: Heiko Voigt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/30041

## Heiko Voigt, 2012-03-23 17:46

Subject: [GIT GUI PATCH] git-gui: open console when using --trace on windows
Message-ID: <242ca34168d568a493306f673e98b9019cee9c23.1332524700.git.hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/242ca34168d568a493306f673e98b9019cee9c23.1332524700.git.hvoigt%40hvoigt.net

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When starting a gui program on windows stdout, stderr and stdin are not
connected to the cmd console. As a workaround tk has a console window.
Lets open this when the --trace commandline option has been given.
This is helpful for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
---
 git-gui/git-gui.sh |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
index ba4e5c1..7dddc7d 100755
--- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ set _trace [lsearch -exact $argv --trace]
 if {$_trace >= 0} {
 	set argv [lreplace $argv $_trace $_trace]
 	set _trace 1
+	if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "win32"} { console show }
 } else {
 	set _trace 0
 }
-- 
1.7.10.rc1.28.g242ca

```