On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 02:54:55PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
> > > I have installed the Git software and upon trying to update a
> > > repository by the "open recent repository" link and am unable to
> > > access the menu-or anything-from there. Instead a window pops up with
> > > the following error message:
> > >
> > > "\usage C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-GUI[
> > > {blame|browser|citool}]
>
> Can you show the full error message / dialog window?
>
> With a little bit of staring you will see the line numbers and a few clues
> about the stack history for the error (i.e. line number and variable)
>
> > > Can you please tell me what this error message means and how to fix
> > > the issue? Thank you!
> >
> > A shot in the dark until someone with access to Windows chimes in (it
> > appears that the "open recent repository" feature of `git gui` is specific
> > to Git for Windows): have you verified that repository actually exists
> > on your filesystem?
>
> Feature is common but the implementations look slightly different
>
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/git-gui/lib/choose_repository.tcl#L123
> $opts insert end [mc "Open Existing Repository"] link_open
>
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/master/git-gui/lib/choose_repository.tcl#L152
> -text [mc "Open Recent Repository:"]
>
> I'm not sure how the differences are created between the two source codes.
>
> The nominal upstream by Pat Thoyts has the same as the git.git version
> https://github.com/patthoyts/git-gui/blob/master/lib/choose_repository.tcl#L123
Heh, somehow I've got an impression the GfW's version of `git gui` was
taught to look in the registry for the recent folders and then pick
those which have ".git" directory located inside or whose names end
in ".git" ;-)