Re: [BUG] gitk

[Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@gmail.com>]

Thanks for confirming.  I do a similar workaround too.
The issue is when new Git users don't even have a ~/.config/git/gitk to modify.
They first have to run it natively where lime exists, then they can
edit it and use it over VNC.

I cannot find any instructions for submitting patches to the gitk subproject.
Does anyone know the process for this?

After looking at the original commit which caused this
(66db14c94c95f911f55575c7fdf74c026443d482)...
... reverting may not be the right thing to do.
Instead, lime should be replaced with "#32cd32", a trivial fix.

Again, I'd do this myself if I had instructions for submitting patches
for to gitk.

Thanks,
~Eric

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:58 AM,  <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com> wrote:
> Am 08.06.2016 um 11:40 schrieb stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com:
>> Am 07.06.2016 um 21:20 schrieb Eric Frederich:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I couldn’t find any documentation on submitting patches for gitk.
>>> I saw in Documentation/SubmittingPatches that gitk is maintained in
>>> its own repo.
>>> I can’t clone repo’s unless they’re http while on my corporate proxy.
>>> I’m hoping someone can help me out or just do it for me ;-)
>>> I’d like to revert 66db14c94c95f911f55575c7fdf74c026443d482.
>>>
>>> That commit just renamed “green” to “lime”
>>> It causes gitk to not start up on when ran through VNC.
>>> It works fine on that same system natively or over X11 forwarding but not VNC.
>>
>> FWIW, I can confirm that.
>>
>> git version 2.8.3
>>
>> My $HOME/.config/git/gitk contains:
>>
>> set mergecolors {red blue green purple brown "#009090" magenta "#808000" "#009000" "#ff0080" cyan "#b07070" "#70b0f0" "#70f0b0" "#f0b070" "#ff70b0"}
>>
>> With that file gitk runs without problems.
>> If I move that file away, gitk stops working over VNC and also forwarded X11 for me.
>
> More Info:
>
> The forwarded X11 (which is from a Windows machine running Exceed to a Linux machine) works
> without the gitk file mentioned above, if I edit the 'rgb.txt' used by Exceed to contain something like:
>
>  50 205  50             lime
>
> Before the editing the file only contained the following:
>
>  50 205  50             lime green
>  50 205  50             LimeGreen
>
> I couldn't do the same for the VNC connection though (Xvnc seems to use a hardcoded 'rgb.txt' file).
>
> It seems that using 'lime' was not the best choice...
>
>
> HTH
>
> Stefan
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