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sdk gitk interaction #4408
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Serendipity: I was catching up with older emails on the Git List and found [PATCH 0/2] gitk: handle long command-lines (24 Jan 2023) which seems to address the issue. And it also states "This fixes #1987" (Dec 17, 2018), so not sure how I missed that when searching the issues - maybe used the wrong search terms. Still not 100% sure why the Solved. It doesn't look like it's not yet applied in upstream gitk to feed back to upstream git to close the loop. I'll close this. |
That looks wrong. Why do you have a non-empty |
I'm not specially using Windows/ARM64. That change in path is just the result of running the I do have a |
Ah. This is the faulty code. There are commands in MSYS2 that ensure that the directory exists, but it is left empty. Therefore, this code needs to be fixed similar to git-for-windows/build-extra@257a670 (and there is another @PhilipOakley would you do the honors to open a PR to fix this, please? |
@dscho I'll certainly add it to the Git items I'm hoping to do (It's looks fairly simple, with good pointers to the relevant places). |
If, in the sdk bash, I
cd
into the git dir and rungitk -6 &
, gitk starts fine. However if I runsdk cd git
first, then I get and error from gitkcouldn't execute "git": file name too long
during startup.Is this happening for others? It appears odd that running the
sdk
script to cd into git (and check updates, etc) should have changed the operation of gitk. (the sdk's gitk is identical to my regular GfW gitk). [additional note at end]Setup
defaults?
to the issue you're seeing?
The sdk was reloaded on 1/4/2023 [April!]
Details
sdk's bash
Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
this will help us understand the issue.
gitk not to show the warning
warning unexpectedly displayed
URL to that repository to help us with testing?
sdk cd git
when using
sdk cd git-extra
(which goes to a sub-dir) gitk is not faulting. Neither issdk cd build-extra
which isn't what I expected...The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: