From: Josef Assad <josef@josefassad.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] more meaningful error message in gitk when git binary is not available
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:17:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50694380.4090108@josefassad.com> (raw)
Hi. I ran across what is a decidedly trivial little issue in gitk. The
TCL/Tk looked simple enough so I am giving you a patch anyhow in case
you want to fix it.
When for whatever reason the git binary is unavailable, gitk would
complain about missing git repository instead, so this patch adds a
check for git binary availability.
In case anyone is curious, I found this issue here:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/11967110/53936
Signed-off-by: Josef Assad <josef@josefassad.com>
---
gitk-git/gitk | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
index d93bd99..7e2e0a7 100755
--- a/gitk-git/gitk
+++ b/gitk-git/gitk
@@ -11680,6 +11680,12 @@ setui $uicolor
setoptions
+# check that the git executables are available for use
+if [catch {set gitexists [exec which git]}] {
+ show_error {} . [mc "Cannot find a suitable git executable."]
+ exit 1
+}
+
# check that we can find a .git directory somewhere...
if {[catch {set gitdir [exec git rev-parse --git-dir]}]} {
show_error {} . [mc "Cannot find a git repository here."]
--
1.7.5.4
next reply other threads:[~2012-10-01 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 7:17 Josef Assad [this message]
2012-10-01 13:39 ` [PATCH] more meaningful error message in gitk when git binary is not available Joachim Schmitz
2012-10-01 17:11 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <5069D0FE.4000609@josefassad.com>
2012-10-01 17:24 ` Josef Assad
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