Re: [BUG] gitk

[Mike Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

You should be able to submit patches for gitk right here.  There is
information right in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches [1]. The primary difference is that
you should clone
gitk and build your patch from that.  You would git format-patch and
git send-email in
the same way.

[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#L319


> 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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