On 2020/03/03 00:05 +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote: > In d9c6469 (git-gui: update status bar to track operations, 2019-12-01) > the call to 'ui_status' in 'do_gitk' was updated to create the newly > introduced "status bar operation". This allowed this status text so show > along with other operations happening in parallel, and removed a race > between all these operations. > > But in that refactor, the fact that 'ui_status' checks for the existence > of 'main_status' was overlooked. This leads to an error message popping > up when the user selects "Show History Context" from the blame window > context menu on a source line. The error occurs because when running > "blame" 'main_status' is not initialized. > > So, add a check for the existence of 'main_status' in 'do_gitk'. This > fix reverts to the original behaviour. In the future, we might want to > look into a better way of telling 'do_gitk' which status bar to use. > > Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@xxxxxxxxx> Thank you for looking into this.
