Junio C Hamano 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. > > > > Actually that should be fixable. > > > > Should be as simple as using a Bourne shell script up front to > > check for "z$1" = zversion || "z$1" = z--version, and if so dump > > back the version, otherwise exec wish. This is actually quite easy > > and won't change things for existing users. I'll put a patch into > > maint tonight for it. > > If this makes life any harder to people on Windows, especially > minGW, I would suggest against it. The MinGW port's exec wrapper looks at the shbang line and runs the shell. Hence, invocation as git gui --version will work even from CMD.EXE. But git-gui --version will only work from MSYS's rxvt. -- Hannes - 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
