Can't use gitk.

Can't use gitk.

[Franck]

Hi,

I'm trying to use gitk --all command but it fails like this:

"""
Error executing git-rev-list: couldn't execute "git-rev-list": no such
file or directory
"""

I'm running git on a fedora core 3. Can anybody give me some help ?

Thanks
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               Franck

Re: Can't use gitk.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Franck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use gitk --all command but it fails like this:
> 
> """
> Error executing git-rev-list: couldn't execute "git-rev-list": no such
> file or directory
> """
> 

Is git-rev-list in your $PATH?
Did you compile (and/or install) with

	make NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease
	make NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease install

Do other git commands work?

> I'm running git on a fedora core 3. Can anybody give me some help ?
> 

Trying to, but a bit more verbosity in the error report wouldn't hurt.

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Re: Can't use gitk.

[Franck]

Hi Andrea

2005/11/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> Franck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use gitk --all command but it fails like this:
> >
> > """
> > Error executing git-rev-list: couldn't execute "git-rev-list": no such
> > file or directory
> > """
> >
>
> Is git-rev-list in your $PATH?

yes:
            # git-rev-list HEAD
            3f1d5f26509defe2f691f5e94a2848848d1ba3a0
            cd9a0ae21e015cc25a0ea98169451a59d49c0909
            538310ad38629a1c1f983d982e52b568bc1dbe79

> Did you compile (and/or install) with
>
>         make NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease
>         make NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease install
>

nope I just did: "make; make install". I tried what you suggested but
it's still failing the same way...

> Do other git commands work?
>

yes, at least some other commands like git-diff-xxx, git-checkout....

> > I'm running git on a fedora core 3. Can anybody give me some help ?
> >
>
> Trying to, but a bit more verbosity in the error report wouldn't hurt.
>

I'm usig git v0.99.9h

Thanks
--
               Franck

Re: Can't use gitk.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Franck wrote:
> Hi Andrea
> 

Not sure why, but 85% of all people replying to me by email refer to me 
as "Andrea". Sort of cute I suppose, although I'm somewhat lacking in 
the TnA department.

> 2005/11/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> 
>>Franck wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to use gitk --all command but it fails like this:
>>>
>>>"""
>>>Error executing git-rev-list: couldn't execute "git-rev-list": no such
>>>file or directory
>>>"""
>>>
>>
>>Is git-rev-list in your $PATH?
> 
> 
> yes:
>             # git-rev-list HEAD

This seems to imply you're running git-rev-list as root. The default 
installation directory for git is $HOME/bin which might not necessarily 
be in the $PATH once "wish" and friends have had their say.

>             3f1d5f26509defe2f691f5e94a2848848d1ba3a0
>             cd9a0ae21e015cc25a0ea98169451a59d49c0909
>             538310ad38629a1c1f983d982e52b568bc1dbe79
> 
> 
>>Did you compile (and/or install) with
>>
>>        make NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease
>>        make NO_OPENSSL=YesPlease install
>>
> 
> 
> nope I just did: "make; make install". I tried what you suggested but
> it's still failing the same way...
> 

So your binaries are installed in $HOME/bin then?

> 
>>Do other git commands work?
>>
> 
> 
> yes, at least some other commands like git-diff-xxx, git-checkout....
> 

Are you running all commands as the same user?

> 
>>>I'm running git on a fedora core 3. Can anybody give me some help ?
>>>
>>
>>Trying to, but a bit more verbosity in the error report wouldn't hurt.
>>
> 
> 
> I'm usig git v0.99.9h
> 

You could try installing from RPM. It should work nicely for all users.

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Re: Can't use gitk.

[Franck]

2005/11/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> Franck wrote:
> > Hi Andrea
>
> Not sure why, but 85% of all people replying to me by email refer to me
> as "Andrea". Sort of cute I suppose, although I'm somewhat lacking in
> the TnA department.

oops, sorry Andreas for that ! I use to spelling this name without 's'
that's why I did the mistake I think.

> This seems to imply you're running git-rev-list as root. The default
> installation directory for git is $HOME/bin which might not necessarily
> be in the $PATH once "wish" and friends have had their say.

nope every commands I'm running are not run as root. $HOME/bin is in my path.

> > nope I just did: "make; make install". I tried what you suggested but
> > it's still failing the same way...
>
> So your binaries are installed in $HOME/bin then?

yes.

> Are you running all commands as the same user?
>

yes

> You could try installing from RPM. It should work nicely for all users.

well, I would prefer to use gt repository instead since GIT is in
active developpement.

Thanks
--
               Franck

Re: Can't use gitk.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Franck wrote:
> 2005/11/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> 
>> The default
>>installation directory for git is $HOME/bin which might not necessarily
>>be in the $PATH once "wish" and friends have had their say.
> 
> 
> nope every commands I'm running are not run as root. $HOME/bin is in my path.
> 

Yes, but wish or some such might strip $HOME/bin away from it.

Try doing

make clean; make prefix=/usr
sudo make prefix=/usr install

and see if it works.

If it does, some program somewhere is manipulating your $PATH.
Otherwise I'm at my wits end. Perhaps someone more clever than myself 
will take a stab at answering tonight when it's daytime in the US.

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Re: Can't use gitk.

[Franck]

Andreas

2005/11/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> Yes, but wish or some such might strip $HOME/bin away from it.
>
> Try doing
>
> make clean; make prefix=/usr
> sudo make prefix=/usr install
>
> and see if it works.

it works.

>
> If it does, some program somewhere is manipulating your $PATH.

It seems that once wish is executed, $PATH does not include anymore my
$HOME/bin directory. Do you have any idea why ?

Thanks
--
               Franck

Re: Can't use gitk.

[Wayne Scott]

Probably you need to fix your .profile or .bashrc.   Set your PATH
unconditionally and not just for interactive shells. In general
anytime you make some setup in your shell conditional on being
interactive it is just asking for problems.

Test like this:
   ssh localhost 'echo $PATH'

-Wayne

On 11/14/05, Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andreas
>
> 2005/11/14, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>:
> > Yes, but wish or some such might strip $HOME/bin away from it.
> >
> > Try doing
> >
> > make clean; make prefix=/usr
> > sudo make prefix=/usr install
> >
> > and see if it works.
>
> it works.
>
> >
> > If it does, some program somewhere is manipulating your $PATH.
>
> It seems that once wish is executed, $PATH does not include anymore my
> $HOME/bin directory. Do you have any idea why ?
>
> Thanks
> --
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Re: Can't use gitk.

[Franck]

2005/11/14, Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>:
> Probably you need to fix your .profile or .bashrc.   Set your PATH
> unconditionally and not just for interactive shells. In general
> anytime you make some setup in your shell conditional on being
> interactive it is just asking for problems.
>
> Test like this:
>    ssh localhost 'echo $PATH'
>

well I found a fix, but I don't know why it actually fixes things :)

I replaced in .bash_profile
        PATH=~/bin:$PATH
by
        PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

Any ideas ?

Thanks
--
               Franck

Re: Can't use gitk.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Franck wrote:
> 2005/11/14, Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>:
> 
> well I found a fix, but I don't know why it actually fixes things :)
> 
> I replaced in .bash_profile
>         PATH=~/bin:$PATH
> by
>         PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 

~ is only interpolated as $HOME when bash (or /bin/sh) is run as an 
interactive shell. Tab-completion won't work from non-interactive shells 
either.

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Re: Can't use gitk.

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:

> nope every commands I'm running are not run as root. $HOME/bin is in my 
> path.

Is it possible that your wish is stripping away $HOME/bin from your PATH? 
Could you try the following?

	$ wish
	% git-rev-list

(If a lot of SHA1s are whizzing by, you can Ctrl-C it, and I am wrong.)

Hth,
Dscho

Re: Can't use gitk.

[Franck]

Hi Johannes

2005/11/14, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:
>
> > nope every commands I'm running are not run as root. $HOME/bin is in my
> > path.
>
> Is it possible that your wish is stripping away $HOME/bin from your PATH?
> Could you try the following?
>
>         $ wish
>         % git-rev-list
>

That's what I'm thinking too, but what you suggested is failing as
well (I added HEAD parameter to giv-rev-list command thought).

thanks
--
               Franck

Offtopic [Re: Can't use gitk.]

[Linus Torvalds]

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On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:
> 
> oops, sorry Andreas for that ! I use to spelling this name without 's'
> that's why I did the mistake I think.

In Finland and Sweden Andrea without the "s" is a girls name, while 
Andreas with the "s" (or André without "-as") is a boy.

It's not even very rare. "Andrea" was the 84th most popular female name in 
Sweden in 2000.

It can be confusing, since in Italy (and, I think, southern Germany and 
much of Eastern Europe), "Andrea" is a boy, and in fact, the name 
originally comes from the Greek meaning "man".

In the rest of the world, Andrea seems to mostly female, but it probably 
depends on where the cultural influences come from.

So leaving off the "s" can be very strange to the recipient.

			Linus

Re: Offtopic [Re: Can't use gitk.]

[Andreas Ericsson]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It can be confusing, since in Italy (and, I think, southern Germany and 
> much of Eastern Europe), "Andrea" is a boy, and in fact, the name 
> originally comes from the Greek meaning "man".
> 

While we're working up the trivia section here we might as well be anal 
about it.

Andrea does indeed mean 'man' in the sense of 'human being' (think 
android). It was a form of flattery in ancient Greece, where being, with 
every breath, as human (or humane, which was originally the same) as 
possible was considered the best anyone could hope to be. Alas, that 
meaning has long since been somewhat watered.

Andreas stems from Andros and means "powerful protective guardian" in 
the sense of a totem. Chicks dig that. ;)

> In the rest of the world, Andrea seems to mostly female, but it probably 
> depends on where the cultural influences come from.
> 
> So leaving off the "s" can be very strange to the recipient.
> 

Personally I don't mind. I just thought it weird that so many are doing 
it. Thanks for the clarification though. It killed a full ten minutes of 
dull late-monday work of debugging other peoples perl-scripts.

Oh well. Back to it, I suppose.

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Re: Offtopic [Re: Can't use gitk.]

[Paolo Ciarrocchi]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:24 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:

Sorry for commenting on this email only now but I found it in my
archive while looking for a different thread :-)

>> oops, sorry Andreas for that ! I use to spelling this name without 's'
>> that's why I did the mistake I think.
>
> In Finland and Sweden Andrea without the "s" is a girls name, while
> Andreas with the "s" (or André without "-as") is a boy.
>
> It's not even very rare. "Andrea" was the 84th most popular female name in
> Sweden in 2000.
>
> It can be confusing, since in Italy (and, I think, southern Germany and
> much of Eastern Europe), "Andrea" is a boy, and in fact, the name
> originally comes from the Greek meaning "man".

In Italy Andrea might be a girl as well even if that name is often
used for a boy.

Ciao,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/

Re: Offtopic [Re: Can't use gitk.]

[Andreas Ericsson]

Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:24 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:
> 
> Sorry for commenting on this email only now but I found it in my
> archive while looking for a different thread :-)
> 
>>> oops, sorry Andreas for that ! I use to spelling this name without 's'
>>> that's why I did the mistake I think.
>> In Finland and Sweden Andrea without the "s" is a girls name, while
>> Andreas with the "s" (or André without "-as") is a boy.
>>
>> It's not even very rare. "Andrea" was the 84th most popular female name in
>> Sweden in 2000.
>>
>> It can be confusing, since in Italy (and, I think, southern Germany and
>> much of Eastern Europe), "Andrea" is a boy, and in fact, the name
>> originally comes from the Greek meaning "man".
> 
> In Italy Andrea might be a girl as well even if that name is often
> used for a boy.
> 

Little did my parents know that the name they gave me would spawn a
discussion lasting very nearly three years.

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Re: can't use gitk

[Andreas Ericsson]

Xin Yang wrote:
> Hi Andreas Ericsson,
> 

Hi Sissia. I forwarded your email to the git list (git@vger.kernel.org)
where you can hope someone will have the time and knowledge to help you.
I'm no gitk or TCL expert, so I wouldn't even know where to start.

For future reference though:
When you want help with an opensource tool you should look for its
mailing list before firing off mails to individual contributors. Mostly
all of us work with opensource on our spare time and we, as individuals,
hardly ever have neither time nor inclination to answer questions in
private. When you ask to the mailing list, the question and the answer
gets stored for all the world to see in the mailing list archives, so
that people in the future with the same problems you have can find it
without anyone having to actually spend time on answering it again.

For a more exhaustive read on that topic, see
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. It holds an abundance
of information valuable to those who need answers for free and gratis.


> I got your name from git archives but I still can't sue gitk. I guess
> there are some environment setup issues.
> Could you give me some clues?
> 
> The GIT version I installed is:
> git-1.5.3.2.tar.bz2<http://download.chinaunix.net/download.php?id=25039&ResourceID=3744>
> 
> The error info I got after running gitk is:
> Error in startup script: syntax error in expression "$i >= [llength $argv]
> && $revtreeargs ne {}"
>     while executing
> "if {$i >= [llength $argv] && $revtreeargs ne {}} {
>     # no -- on command line, but some arguments (other than -d)
>     if {[catch {
>         set f [eval exec ..."
>     (file "/apps/mds_lrt/git/bin/gitk" line 7912)
> 
> Here is code beginning from line 7912:
> if {$i >= [llength $argv] && $revtreeargs ne {}} {
>     # no -- on command line, but some arguments (other than -d)
>     if {[catch {
>         set f [eval exec git rev-parse --no-revs --no-flags $revtreeargs]
>         set cmdline_files [split $f "\n"]
>         set n [llength $cmdline_files]
>         set revtreeargs [lrange $revtreeargs 0 end-$n]
>         # Unfortunately git rev-parse doesn't produce an error when
>         # something is both a revision and a filename.  To be consistent
>         # with git log and git rev-list, check revtreeargs for filenames.
>         foreach arg $revtreeargs {
>             if {[file exists $arg]} {
>                 show_error {} . "Ambiguous argument '$arg': both revision\
>                                  and filename"
>                 exit 1
>             }
>         }
>     } err]} {
>         # unfortunately we get both stdout and stderr in $err,
>         # so look for "fatal:".
>         set i [string first "fatal:" $err]
>         if {$i > 0} {
>             set err [string range $err [expr {$i + 6}] end]
>         }
>         show_error {} . "Bad arguments to gitk:\n$err"
>         exit 1
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I am looking forward to your reply. :) Thanks a lot.
> 
> Sissia
> 


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