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>
The Makefile only runs po/po2msg.sh using tclsh, but because the
script has the usual tcl preamble starting with #!/bin/sh it can also
be run directly.
The Windows git-gui wrapper is usable in-place for the same reason.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
When creating a desktop shortcut from the gui the shortcut directly
starts wish with the git-gui script. In the msysgit development
environment some dll's reside in the mingw/bin directory which causes
that git can not start because libiconv2.dll is not found.
When using such a link the error is even more cryptic stating:
"child killed: unknown signal"
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
This works around git-gui's error message
Cannot use funny .git directory: .
when started from the .git/ directory, which is useful in repositories
without any directories for the right click.
Now git-gui can be started via Windows Explorer shell extension (Git GUI
Here) from the .git/ directory.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
git-gui needs bindir in PATH to be able to run 'git'. bindir
however is not necessarily in PATH if started directly through a
Windows shortcut. Therefore, we used to add the directory
git-gui is located in. But with the new 'libexec/git-core'
layout this directory is no longer identical to bindir.
This commit modifies the wrapper script to discover the bindir
and add it to PATH.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
The wrapper adds the directory it is installed in to PATH.
This is required for the git commands implemented in shell.
git-gui fails to launch them if PATH is not modified.
The wrapper script also accepts an optional command line
switch '--working-dir <dir>' and changes to <dir> before
launching the actual git-gui. This is required to implement
the "Git Gui Here" Explorer shell extension.
As a last step the original git-gui script is launched,
which is expected to be located in the same directory
under the name git-gui.tcl.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
