From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: walt Subject: Re: gitk-1.0 released Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:10:23 -0700 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <17036.36624.911071.810357@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 20 03:22:08 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYwCw-0007Fq-MK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 03:21:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261244AbVETBWa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 21:22:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261247AbVETBWa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 21:22:30 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:51584 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261244AbVETBWQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2005 21:22:16 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DYwBy-0007B4-8Q for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 03:20:46 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-198-226.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.198.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 03:20:46 +0200 Received: from wa1ter by adsl-69-234-198-226.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 03:20:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-198-226.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mail/News Client 1.0+ (X11/20050519) In-Reply-To: <17036.36624.911071.810357@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Paul Mackerras wrote: > I have released a new version of gitk. I got brave and called it 1.0 > and it is at: > > http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk-1.0 . . . Today, gitk works beautifully for me. Yesterday, though, I had a weird first experience when it opened a very attractive tcl/tk interface which displayed no text of any kind. I tried fiddling with the two menus you provide, bit still no success. I finally just gave up. When I tried gitk again today -- it was magic! All the kernel tree appeared just as (I suppose) you intended. As far as I know, I did nothing to change anything since yesterday. Can you venture a guess why I had sucess today and failure yesterday? Does gitk perhaps depend on a generated database of some kind before it will work properly?