Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This is only minor nuisance, but can we do something about this? > >> > >> $ git gui --version > >> Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable > >> > >> I know it is from wish, not you, so I wouldn't insist, though. > > If this makes life any harder to people on Windows, especially > minGW, I would suggest against it. Its already done. I don't think it will make a difference either way right now. Currently we still have to have a Bourne shell on both Cygwin and MINGW platforms to perform key actions, like say git-clone. The startup cost of git-gui is also rather high there anyway, so this extra if test in Bourne shell before we exec into Tcl isn't going to kill us. Besides, you can side-step the entire Bourne shell thing by just starting git-gui in wish yourself. E.g. CALL /path/to/wish.exe /path/to/git-gui -- ... I'd like to come back and make git-gui easier to install, perhaps by making "starpacks" of git-gui and Git plumbing available for some popular systems (e.g. MINGW/Windows, Mac OS X). Such starpacks would give users an easy way to get git-gui (and thus basic Git) up and running quickly. At that point I will need to revisit this bootstrap code anyway. -- Shawn. - 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
