Hello, Is there anything else (besides sending this email) that I can do to help move this patch along? I got another "gitk read-only repo broken" email this week, which is what reminded me... ;-) It's been a while. I just rebased the patch against the latest master and it didn't have any conflicts. Resend? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 01:11:19AM -0700, David Aguilar wrote: > git-difftool's '--extcmd=frotz' was added in 1.7.0 and > is the mechanism through which gitk launches the > configured 'extdifftool'. When 'extdifftool' is > misconfigured an error dialog is used to display > git-difftool's stdout and stderr. > > The existing implementation moved into 'proc gitkextdiff' > for use with git < 1.7.0. > > One benefit of this change is that gitk's external diff > no longer requires write-access to the current directory. > > Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Changes since last time: > > * Errors are shown using 'proc error_popup' > * The existing code moved into a tidy function > > gitk | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/gitk b/gitk > index 1b0e09a..0533baf 100755 > --- a/gitk > +++ b/gitk > @@ -3361,6 +3361,7 @@ proc external_diff {} { > global flist_menu_file > global diffids > global extdifftool > + global git_version > > if {[llength $diffids] == 1} { > # no reference commit given > @@ -3380,6 +3381,30 @@ proc external_diff {} { > set diffidfrom [lindex $diffids 0] > set diffidto [lindex $diffids 1] > } > + if {[package vcompare $git_version "1.7.0"] < 0} { > + gitkextdiff $diffidfrom $diffidto > + return > + } > + > + set cmd [list "git" "difftool" "--no-prompt" "--extcmd=$extdifftool"] > + if {$diffidfrom ne $nullid && $diffidfrom ne $nullid2} { > + lappend cmd $diffidfrom > + } > + if {$diffidto ne $nullid && $diffidto ne $nullid2} { > + lappend cmd $diffidto > + } > + lappend cmd "--" $flist_menu_file > + > + set pipe [open |$cmd r] > + set stdout [read $pipe] > + if {[catch {close $pipe} stderr] != 0} { > + error_popup "git-difftool: $stdout $stderr" > + } > +} > + > +proc gitkextdiff {diffidfrom diffidto} { > + global flist_menu_file > + global extdifftool > > # make sure that several diffs wont collide > set diffdir [gitknewtmpdir] > -- > 1.7.1.rc2.5.gddd02 > -- David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html