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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: git-gui fails to start
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:53:52 -0400
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"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> 
> I'm on a CentOS Linux box, tracking 4.6 with Git 1.5.5.4 built
> from source.
>
> When I run gitk on a repository it works fine, but nothing happens when I run
> git-gui. No error messages, nothing. 
...
> and then it just sits there. 
> 
> I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.9. 

I think this was fixed in gitgui-0.10.2, which did not ship with
Git proper until 1.5.6-rc0.  Now that 1.5.6.1 has been released I
would encourage you to upgrade to the latest stable release of Git.

The issue was aspell earlier than 0.60 caused git-gui to deadlock
because it didn't understand "$$cr master", which git-gui sends
on startup when it launches the background spell checker.

You can also work around the issue by disabling the spell checker:

	git config --global gui.spellingdictionary none

-- 
Shawn.