# [BUG] No context menu in gitk on macos

3 messages from 2025-09-23 to 2025-09-24. Participants: Marcin Wisnicki, Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64193

## Marcin Wisnicki, 2025-09-23 19:35

Subject: [BUG] No context menu in gitk on macos
Message-ID: <CAC9GOO8KCuLCZguZm_dg2MKS=cO=YUb9Uc+VLNTZSXMiO9wcig@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAC9GOO8KCuLCZguZm_dg2MKS%3DcO%3DYUb9Uc%2BVLNTZSXMiO9wcig%40mail.gmail.com

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# What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

1. create repo with one commit
2. gitk
3. right click on commit

# What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

See context menu like on Windows

# What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

Nothing

# What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?


# Anything else you want to add:

[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.51.0
cpu: arm64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
libcurl: 8.7.1
zlib: 1.2.12
SHA-1: SHA1_DC
SHA-256: SHA256_BLK
default-ref-format: files
default-hash: sha1
uname: Darwin 24.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:28:30
PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64
compiler info: clang: 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)
libc info: no libc information available
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh


[Enabled Hooks]

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## Marcin Wisnicki, 2025-09-23 19:54

Subject: Re: [BUG] No context menu in gitk on macos
Message-ID: <CAC9GOO8MLaBEfmyJhq3SHPmOCv+6KVLT_pW9xMm5Qxu4065pCg@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAC9GOO8MLaBEfmyJhq3SHPmOCv%2B6KVLT_pW9xMm5Qxu4065pCg%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CAC9GOO8KCuLCZguZm_dg2MKS=cO=YUb9Uc+VLNTZSXMiO9wcig@mail.gmail.com>

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Nevermind, brew upgrade 2.51.0_1 -> 2.51.0_2 fixed it

On Tue, 23 Sept 2025 at 15:35, Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> # What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
>
> 1. create repo with one commit
> 2. gitk
> 3. right click on commit
>
> # What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
>
> See context menu like on Windows
>
> # What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
>
> Nothing
>
> # What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
>
>
> # Anything else you want to add:
>
> [System Info]
> git version:
> git version 2.51.0
> cpu: arm64
> no commit associated with this build
> sizeof-long: 8
> sizeof-size_t: 8
> shell-path: /bin/sh
> feature: fsmonitor--daemon
> libcurl: 8.7.1
> zlib: 1.2.12
> SHA-1: SHA1_DC
> SHA-256: SHA256_BLK
> default-ref-format: files
> default-hash: sha1
> uname: Darwin 24.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:28:30
> PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64
> compiler info: clang: 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)
> libc info: no libc information available
> $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh
>
>
> [Enabled Hooks]

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## Johannes Sixt, 2025-09-24 08:50

Subject: Re: [BUG] No context menu in gitk on macos
Message-ID: <676d1b04-9a70-4002-ba3c-d9bb03b82235@kdbg.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/676d1b04-9a70-4002-ba3c-d9bb03b82235%40kdbg.org
In-Reply-To: <CAC9GOO8KCuLCZguZm_dg2MKS=cO=YUb9Uc+VLNTZSXMiO9wcig@mail.gmail.com>

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Am 23.09.25 um 21:35 schrieb Marcin Wisnicki:
> # What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> 
> 1. create repo with one commit
> 2. gitk
> 3. right click on commit
> 
> # What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> 
> See context menu like on Windows
> 
> # What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> 
> Nothing
This has been addressed already: https://github.com/j6t/gitk/issues/31

-- Hannes


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