From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Riesen Subject: Re: problem with git gui on cygwin. Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20081111180817.GA7589@blimp.localdomain> References: <20081111170557.GI2932@spearce.org> Reply-To: Alex Riesen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jim Jensen , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 11 19:09:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KzxgJ-0004Nq-5n for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:09:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752315AbYKKSIW (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:08:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752401AbYKKSIW (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:08:22 -0500 Received: from mo-p05-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.181]:49673 "EHLO mo-p05-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751657AbYKKSIV (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:08:21 -0500 X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo05 X-RZG-AUTH: :Pm0FVUW6aauhRGJJc5OfA4AU8DM8ZlijdmJYxKn/UQvEQQx8BU83pbQ= Received: from tigra.home (Fae1e.f.strato-dslnet.de [195.4.174.30]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo16) (RZmta 17.19) with ESMTP id L060c6kABGQNvM ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from blimp.localdomain (unknown [192.168.0.8]) by tigra.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2C7277C8; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by blimp.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4808E36D27; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:17 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081111170557.GI2932@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shawn O. Pearce, Tue, Nov 11, 2008 18:05:57 +0100: > Jim Jensen 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?