In git.git, commit 5309c1e9fb39 (Makefile: set default goals in
makefiles, 2025-02-15) touched two Makefiles in the git-git/ directory.
Import these changes, so that the trees can converge again with the
next merge of this repository into git.git.
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* js/ask-yesno:
git-gui--askyesno (mingw): use Git for Windows' icon, if available
git-gui--askyesno: allow overriding the window title
git gui: set GIT_ASKPASS=git-gui--askpass if not set yet
git-gui: provide question helper for retry fallback on Windows
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
The command Revert Changes has two different erroneous behaviors
depending on the Tcl version used.
The command uses a "chord" facility where different "notes" are
evaluated asynchronously and any error is reported after all of them
have finished. The intent is that a private namespace is used where
the notes can store the error state. Tcl 9 changed namespace handling
in a subtle way, as https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.0.html
summarizes under "Notable incompatibilities":
Unqualified varnames resolved in current namespace, not global.
Note that in almost all cases where this causes a change, the
change is actually the removal of a latent bug.
And that's exactly what happens here.
- Under Tcl 9:
- When the command operates without any errors, the variable `err`
is never set. When the error handler wants to inspect `err` (in
the correct private namespace), it does not find it and a Tcl
error about an unset variable occurs. Incidentally, this is also
the case when the user cancels the operation with the option
"Do Nothing"!
On the other hand, when an error occurs during the operation, `err`
is set and found as intended.
Check for the existence of the variable `err` before the attempt to
read it.
- Under Tcl 8.6:
The error handler looks up `err` in the global namespace, which is
bogus and unintended. The variable is set due to the many
`catch ... err` that occur during startup in the global namespace.
- When the command operates without any errors, the error handler
finds the global `err`, which happens to be the empty string at
this point, and no error is reported.
On the other hand, when an error occurs during the operation, the
global `err` is set and found, so that an error is reported as
desired.
However, the value of `err` persists in the global namespace. When
the command is repeated, an error is reported again, even if there
was actually no error, and even "Do Nothing" was used to cancel
the operation.
Clear the global `err` before the operation begins.
The lingering error message is not a problem under Tcl 9, because a
prestine namespace is established every time the command is used.
This fixes https://github.com/j6t/git-gui/issues/21.
Helped-by: Igor Stepushchik
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
This provides a unified look-and-feel in Git for Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
"Question?" is maybe not the most informative thing to ask. In the
absence of better information, it is the best we can do, of course.
However, Git for Windows' auto updater just learned the trick to use
git-gui--askyesno to ask the user whether to update now or not. And in
this scripted scenario, we can easily pass a command-line option to
change the window title.
So let's support that with the new `--title <title>` option.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Make use of the new environment variable GIT_ASK_YESNO to support the
recently implemented fallback in case unlink, rename or rmdir fail for
files in use on Windows. The added dialog will present a yes/no question
to the the user which will currently be used by the windows compat layer
to let the user retry a failed file operation.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
git-gui invokes some long running commands using "nice git $cmd" if nice
is found and works, otherwise just "git $cmd". The current code is more
complex than needed; let's simplify it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
git-gui since 8fe7861c51 ("git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute
elements.", 2025-04-11) uses a list to maintain order and a dict to
detect duplicated elements without quadratic complexity. But, Tcl's
dict explicitly maintains keys in the order first added, thus the list
is not needed. Simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* cb/no-tcl86-on-macos:
git-gui: ensure own version of git-gui--askpass is used
git-gui: honor TCLTK_PATH in git-gui--askpass
git-gui: retire Git Gui.app
git-gui: fix dependency of GITGUI_MAIN on generator
git-gui: remove uname_O in Makefile
When finding a location for the askpass helper, git will be asked
for its exec path, but if that git is not the same that called
git-gui then we might mistakenly point to its helper instead.
Assume that git-gui and the helper are colocated to derive its
path instead.
This is specially useful in macOS where a broken version of that
helper is provided by the system git.
[j6t: move directory to variable to help in-flight topics]
Suggested-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* 'strip-post-hooks' of github.com:orgads/git-gui:
git-gui: strip the commit message after running commit-msg hook
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* ml/tcl90:
git-gui: Allow Tcl 9.0
git-gui: use -profile tcl8 on encoding conversions
git-gui: use -profile tcl8 for file input with Tcl 9
git-gui: themed.tcl: use full namespace for color
git-gui: remove EOL translation for gets
git-gui: do not mix -translation binary and -encoding
git-gui: replace encoding binary with iso8859-1
git-gui: translation binary defines iso8859-1
git-gui: assure -eofchar {} on all channels
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* 'master' of https://github.com/alshopov/git-gui:
git-gui i18n: Remove the locations within the Bulgarian translation
git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (557t)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
TclTk 9.0 is now shipping, and git-gui is now patched to support use of
this newer version. Adjust required versions to allow Tcl/Tk >= 8.6,
including 9.x.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui in the prior commit learned to apply -profile tcl8 when reading
files, avoiding errors on non-binary data streams whose encoding is not
utf-8. But, git-gui also consumes binary data streams (generally blobs
from commits) as the output of commands, and internally decodes this to
support various displays.
With Tcl9, errors occur in this decoding for the same reasons described
in the previous commit: basically, the underlying data may contain
extended ascii characters violating the assumption of utf-8 encoding.
This problem has a similar fix to the prior issue: we must use the tlc8
profile when converting this data to the internal unicode format. Do so,
again only on Tcl9 as Tcl8.6 does not recognize -profile, and only Tcl
9.0 makes strict the default.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui invokes many git commands expecting output in utf-8 encoding,
but git accepts extended ascii (code page unknown) as utf-8 without
validating, so cannot guarantee valid utf-8 on output. In particular,
using any extended ascii code page has long been acceptable on git given
that everyone on a project is aware of and uses that same code page to
view all data. utf-8 accepts only 7-bit ascii characters in single
bytes, and any characters outside of that base set require at least two
bytes for representation in unicode.
Tcl is a string based language, and transcodes all input data to an
internal unicode format, and to whatever format is requested on output:
"pure" binary is recoded byte by byte using iso8859-1. Tcl8.x silently
recodes invalid utf-8 as binary data, so extended ascii characters
maintain their binary value on output but may not display correctly.
Tcl 8.7 added three profiles to control this behaviour: strict (raises
exceptions), replace (replaces each invalid byte with ?), and the
default tcl8 maintaining the old behavior. Tcl 9 changes the default
profile to strict, meaning any invalid utf-8 raises an exception that
git-gui does not handle.
An example of this in the git repository is commit 7eb93c8965 ("[PATCH]
Simplify git script", 2005-09-07). This includes extended ascii
characters in the author name and commit message.
The tcl8 profile used so far has acceptable behavior given git-gui's
acceptance: this allows git-gui to accept extended ascii though it may
display incorrectly. Let's continue that behavior by overriding open to
use the tcl8 profile on Tcl9 and later: Tcl 8.6 does not understand
fconfigure -profile, and Tcl 8.7 maintains the tcl8 profile.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Tcl 9 imposes strict requirements on namespaces for variables, while Tcl
8 does not. lib/themed.tcl does not use the fully qualified name for the
"color" namespace, with result that variables are not found with Tcl
9.0. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui configures '-translation lf' on a number of channels. The
default configuration is 'auto', which on input changes any occurrence
of \n, \r, or \r\n to \n, and on output changes any such EOL sequence to
a platform dependent value (\n on Unix, \r\n on Windows). Such
translation can be necessary, but much of what is configured now is
redundant.
In particular, many of the channels configured this way are then
consumed by gets, which already recognizes any of \n, \r, or \r\n as
terminators. Configuring a channel to first change these line endings,
then give the result to gets, is redundant.
The valid uses of -translation lf are for output where we do not want
\r\n on Windows, and for consuming entire files without going through
gets, assuring that \n will be used internally. Let's remove all the
others that only serve to confuse.
lib/diff.tcl must have -translation lf because \r\n might be stored in
the repository (e.g., on Windows, with no crlf translation enabled), and
git will treat \n as the line ending, while the preceding \r is just
whitespace, and these may be split by ANSI color coding. git-gui's
read_diff handles this correctly as-is.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
* ml/windows-tie-loose-ends:
git-gui: use /cmd/git-gui.exe for shortcut
git-gui: Windows tk_getSaveFile is not useful for shortcuts
git-gui: let nice work on Windows
git-gui: do not add directories to PATH on Windows
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Since its introduction in 8c76212 (git-gui: Add a simple implementation
of SSH_ASKPASS., 2008-10-15), git-gui--askpass has been calling whatever
wish interpreter is in the path, unlike git-gui.
Correct that by turning it into a script that would be processed at build
time.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
In a recent commit, the minimum version of Tcl/Tk was raised to
8.6, but the "app" relies on the system provided Framework that
is based on 8.5.
Remove it, and let git-gui use a third party version of Wish if
available.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Since 854e883 (git-gui: extract script to generate "git-gui",
2025-03-11), the logic to generate the main script was pulled
out of the Makefile, but adding the resulting generator as a
dependency was missed.
If the logic changes, the main script should be regenerated, so
add it as a dependency.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Last used in ae49066 (git gui Makefile - remove Cygwin modifications,
2023-06-26), and unused since.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
git-gui has many instances of '-translation binary' and '-encoding
$SOMETHING' on the same channel. As eofchar is always null given a
prior commit, the net effect of having '-translation binary' in such
configuration is only to change how text line endings are handled.
For cases where the channel is opened to be consumed via gets, the eol
translation is irrelevant because Tcl's gets is documented to recognize
any of \n, \r, and \r\n as a line ending. So, keep only the '-encoding
$SOMETHING' configuration in these cases, making the configuration more
clear.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui currently configures some channels as '-encoding binary' when
the channel is not really binary (e.g, the channel is consumed as lines
of text). In 8.6, '-encoding binary' is an alias for '-encoding
iso8859), but TIP 699 removes this alias for Tcl 9.0. Let's switch to
'-encoding iso8859-1' to be compatible across Tcl versions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui has many cases where -translation binary and -encoding binary
are configured on the same channel. But, -translation binary defines a
binary channel, which sets up -encoding iso8859-1 as part of its work.
Tcl 8.x defines -encoding binary as an alias of -encoding iso8859-1, and
this alias is deleted in Tcl 9.0. Let's delete the redundant encoding
definition now.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Per 6eb420ef61 ("git-gui: Always disable the Tcl EOF character when
reading", 2007-07-17), git-gui should disable Tcl's EOF character
detection on all files when on Windows: the default is disabled on all
other platforms (and with Tcl 9.0, is disabled on Windows too). This
EOF character is for compatibility with files / applications written for
file systems that know only the disc sectors allocated, and not the
number of bytes used. This has nothing to do with git.
But, git-gui does not set -eofchar {} on all channels. To avoid any
further leakage, let's just add this to the Windows specific override of
open. This override is needed only as long as Tcl 8.x is in use (Tcl
9.0 makes -eofchar {} default on all platforms).
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui on Windows creates a shortcut that presumes the git-gui script
will run on the basic Windows environment as configured. But, Git for
Windows uses wrapper scripts to launch executables, assuring the
environment is correct (see [1] for details). The launcher for git-gui
is /cmd/git-gui.exe, is not on PATH, and is not detected or used by the
current shortcut code. Let's look for this before trying the existing
approaches.
[1] https://gitforwindows.org/git-wrapper.html
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui has _search_exe as needed to give the executable suffix
(.exe) on Windows. But, the prior commit eliminated the only user of
this variable. Delete it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
gitexec looks up and caches the method to execute git subcommands using
the long deprecated dashed form if found in $(git--exec-path). But,
git_read and git_write now use the dashless form, by-passing gitexec.
This leaves two remaining uses of gitexec: one during startup to define
use of an ssh_key helper, and one in the about dialog box. These are
neither performance critical nor likely to be called more than once, so
do not justify an otherwise unused cacheing system.
Let's change those two uses, making gitexec unused. This allows removing
gitexec and _git_cmd.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui implements its own approach to locating and running various git
subcommands, bypassing git's capabilities for running git-*. This was
written in 2007: at that time, many git commands were shell-scripts
stored in $(git --exec-path), git's run-command api was not well adapted
to Windows and had serious performance issues when it worked at all, and
running subcommand 'git foo' as 'git-foo' was common and fully supported.
On Windows, git-gui searches $(git --exec-path) for builtin commands,
then attempts to find an interpreter on PATH to run those, invoking
these differently than on other platforms. For instance, the explicit
shebang #!/usr/bin/perl found in a script will be run by the first Perl
interpreter found on $PATH, which might not be at that specific location
so could be different than what git would run.
The various issues leading to the current implemention no longer exist.
Most git commands are now builtins, links to run those are not installed
in $(git --exec-path) by default (the "dashless" form is recommended
instead), and git's run-command api works well everywhere.
So, let's use git to launch its subcommands on all platforms. Do so by
modifying procs git_read and git_write to use the "dashless" form for
invoking git commands, avoiding the search for git-<foo>. This leaves
_git_cmd unused with cleanup in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui's default clone method is git-clone's default, and this uses
hardlinks rather than copying the objects directory for local
repositories. However, this method explicitly fails if a symlink (or
.gitfile) exists in the path to the objects directory. Thus, the default
clone option fails for worktrees created by git-new-workdir or
git-worktree. git-gui's original do_clone trapped this error for a
symlinked git-new-workdir tree, directly falling back to a full clone,
while the updated git-gui using git-clone does not. (The old do_clone
could not handle gitfile linked worktrees, however).
Let's apply the more friendly fallback to a full clone in both these
cases where git-clone behavior throws an error on the default method.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui clones a repository by invoking git-plumbing commands, in proc
do_clone, rather than using git-clone. The justification was that the
low-level commands are guaranteed to provide a stable interface, while
the higher level commands such as git-clone may not be stable. This
approach requires git-gui to continually evolve by mirroring new
features in git itself, which has not happened, while the user interface
in git-clone has proven very stable. Also, git-gui does directly call
many other non-plumbing commands in git's repertoire.
do_clone's last significant functionality change was in 2015, and
updates are required for shallow clones, the reftable backend, cloning
from linked worktrees, and perhaps other features and bugs. For
instance, I had reports of git-gui failing to correctly clone
repositories prior to 2015, resulting in essentially the patch given
here. The only significant work was supporting .gitfile linked worktrees
unknown to do_clone, but supported by git-clone, and none regarding the
interface to git-clone itself. That interface is clearly stable enough
to not be a problem.
Supporting new use-cases with this requires exposing new options in the
clone dialog, then passing flags to git-clone. This avoids updating
do_clone to understand those options, reducing the maintenance burdens.
So, teach git-gui to use git-clone. This change is in one patch as
there is no obvious incremental path to migration. The existing dialog /
options / status screen are unchanged, the known user-visible changes
are that cloning from a working directory linked by a gitfile now works,
there is no auto-fallback to a full copy when cloning linked workdirs
and worktrees (meaning git-clone fails unless a full or shared copy is
selected), and messages displayed are from git-clone.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui has code paths to support older non-ttk widgets, but this code
is no longer reachable as ttk is always used. Remove that code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui invokes the tk_getSaveFile dialog to determine the full
path-name of the shortcut file to create. But, on Windows, this dialog
always dereferences a shortcut (.lnk) file, as this is essentially a
soft-link to its target. If the shortcut file already exists, the dialog
returns the path-name of the target (i.e., GIT/cmd/git-gui.exe), and not
the desired shortcut file selected by the user.
There is no Windows file chooser available in Tcl/Tk that does not
dereference .lnk files, so this patch avoids using a dialog: the
shortcut to be created is on the desktop and named as "Git + Repository
Name". If this .lnk file already exists, the user must give permission
to overwrite it or the process terminates.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui runs blame and diff commands with nice by default. On Unix, nice
is accepted if found and it will run git. Commit ff9db6c79d ("On
Windows, avoid git-gui to call Cygwin's nice utility", 2010-10-05)
rejects nice if not collocated with git. In Git for Windows' (g4w) POSIX
path name space, nice and git are found in different directories:
$ which git
/mingw64/bin/git
$ which nice
/usr/bin/nice
Thus, git-gui will not use nice in the supported Windows configuration.
Commit ff9db6c79d justifies the collocation requirement as avoiding
problems in a mixed MSYS and Cygwin configuration: such configurations
are not supported by either project as they are known to cause many
problems.
So, let's revert ff9db6c79d and let git-gui work correctly in the
supported configuration.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui on Windows prepends three directories to PATH so does not honor
PATH as configured. This can have undesirable consequences, for instance
by preventing use of a different git for testing. This also provides at
best a subset of the configuration included with Git for Windows (g4w),
so is neither necessary nor sufficient there.
Since commit be700fe3, git-gui.sh adds its directory to the front of
PATH: this is essentially adding $(git --execdir) to the path, this is
long deprecated as git moved to using "dashless" subcommands.
The windows/git-gui.sh wrapper file, since commit 99fe594d, adds two
directories relative to its installed location to PATH, and does so
without checking that either exists or is needed.
The above modifications were made before the Git For Windows project
took responsibility for distributing a working solution on Windows. g4w
assures a correct configuration on Windows without these, and doing so
requires more than the above modifications. See [1] for a more thorough
treatment.
git-gui does not modify PATH on any platform except on Windows, and
doing so is not needed by g4w. Let's stop modifying PATH on Windows as
well.
[1] https://gitforwindows.org/git-wrapper.html
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui uses ${NS} to switch between non-themed and themed widgets, with
${NS} == 'ttk' selecting the latter. As git-gui now always uses ttk,
this indirection is not needed. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui optionally uses themed ui elements from ttk, but the full set of
ttk ui elements is always available with Tk 8.6. Keeping code making
ttk use optional increases maintenance burden for no benefit. Let's use
ttk always, allowing removal of alternate code paths in subsequent
patches.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Since commit c80d7be5e1e0d, git-gui checks for the availability of ttk
before enabling its use, but this check is redundant as Tk >= 8.6 is
required. Remove the redundant check.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui has remnant code to allow some drawing with Tk 8.4 predating the
addition of themed widgets. As git-gui requires Tk >= 8.6, this code can
never trigger. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-version supports choosing different bodies of code passed into it,
rather than using the more traditional if/else construct typically used.
The only use of git-version in this mode was by its author in 2007, and
that code has been deleted. So, delete this now unused function that
was mostly ignored.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
When creating a new repository, git-gui creates a directory, cds to it,
then runs git-init, but git-init learned to create and initialize the
directory in 1.6.5. git-gui requires git version >= 2.36, so teach
git-gui to use git-init's full capability.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui checks for git version >= 1.6.6 before enabling the remotes
menu. But git-gui requires git v2.36 or later, so git-remote is always
available. Delete this check and always enable the menu.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
