"David Tweed" <david.tweed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> now I've installed 1.5.0, I've discovered gitk is still the
> visualisation tool for graphically browsing history. I think gitk is a
> good program, but one thing I'd like to be able to change is to have a
> way to force gitk not to update its saved internal geometry (position
> of internal dividers, etc) when it exits. I tried making ~/.gitk not
> writable but that didn't work. I don't know tcl: is there a simple way
> to prevent gitk updating this upon quitting?
I do not talk Tcl, but I think you can apply this patch and then
if you add
set dontsave 1
at the end of ~/.gitk with your editor, it would stop updating
your geometry (or anything else for that matter).
diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 9ddff3e..cd0d68d 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -813,9 +813,10 @@ proc savestuff {w} {
global maxwidth showneartags
global viewname viewfiles viewargs viewperm nextviewnum
global cmitmode wrapcomment
- global colors bgcolor fgcolor diffcolors
+ global colors bgcolor fgcolor diffcolors dontsave
if {$stuffsaved} return
+ if {$dontsave} return
if {![winfo viewable .]} return
catch {
set f [open "~/.gitk-new" w]
@@ -6251,6 +6252,7 @@ set bgcolor white
set fgcolor black
set diffcolors {red "#00a000" blue}
+set dontsave 0
catch {source ~/.gitk}
font create optionfont -family sans-serif -size -12
-
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