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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 -- 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