From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: Jim Jensen <jhjjhjjhj@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with git gui on cygwin.
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111180817.GA7589@blimp.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081111170557.GI2932@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce, Tue, Nov 11, 2008 18:05:57 +0100:
> Jim Jensen <jhjjhjjhj@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been trying to use git for a small project using cygwin. I copied my
> > repository from one windows XP system to a Vista system using a usb drive. On
> > the new system when I use "git gui" I get a pop up that says "Git directory not
> > found: .git"
> >
> > This happens with git gui and gitk. The command line programs I tried, git show
> > and git status appear to work.
>
> Huh. Sounds like the Tcl/Tk process isn't spawning the Cygwin git
> process in the right directory or something. Weird that both git-gui
> and gitk are giving you errors; usually its git-gui that is being
> paranoid about the repository structure and gitk works just fine.
>
> You can try starting `git gui --trace` and see if that tells you
> any more detail, but it doesn't show cwd so it may not be all that
> useful to help you debug it.
>
Maybe the fact that wish is not a cygwin application (doesn't use use
cygwin1.dll) is a hint?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-11 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-11 16:04 problem with git gui on cygwin Jim Jensen
2008-11-11 17:05 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-11 18:08 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-11-12 15:37 ` Jim Jensen
2008-11-13 20:15 ` tejus das
2008-11-13 21:06 ` Pascal Obry
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