This is to help people starting gitk from graphical file managers where the stderr output is hidden. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> --- gitk | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/gitk b/gitk index fc7cc8c..f5949a2 100755 --- a/gitk +++ b/gitk @@ -7575,7 +7575,10 @@ catch {source ~/.gitk} font create optionfont -family sans-serif -size -12 # check that we can find a .git directory somewhere... -set gitdir [gitdir] +if {[ catch { set gitdir [gitdir] } ]} { + show_error {} . "Cannot find a git repository here." + exit 1 +} if {![file isdirectory $gitdir]} { show_error {} . "Cannot find the git directory \"$gitdir\"." exit 1 -- 1.5.3.rc3.48.g5b618 - 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