[PATCH] Allow gitk to continue and show error message in new repos

Alex Riesen· Jul 29, 2007, 20:28 UTC · lore

If there is no commit made yet, gitk just dumps a Tcl error on stderr, which sometimes is hard to see. Noticed when gitk was run from Xfce file manager (thunar's custom action).

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
---
 gitk |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Show changes to gitk +1 −1

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index f74ce51..fc7cc8c 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ proc readrefs {} {
 	    lappend idotherrefs($id) $name
 	}
     }
-    close $refd
+    catch { close $refd }
     set mainhead {}
     set mainheadid {}
     catch {

-- 
1.5.3.rc3.48.g5b618

patchAllow gitk to continue and show error message in new repos