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>