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

1 messages from 2007-07-29 to 2007-07-29. Participants: Alex Riesen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9296

## Alex Riesen, 2007-07-29 20:28

Subject: [PATCH] Allow gitk to continue and show error message in new repos
Message-ID: <20070729202840.GA9362@steel.home>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070729202840.GA9362%40steel.home

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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(-)

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

```