Pre-2012, git-gui enabled the "Repository->Explore Working Copy" menu on
Cygwin, offering open a Windows graphical file browser at the root
working directory. The old code relied upon internal use of Windows
pathnames, while git-gui must use unix pathnames on Cygwin since 2012,
so was removed in a previous patch.
A base install of Cygwin provides the /bin/cygstart utility that runs
arbtitrary Windows applications after translating unix pathnames to
Windows. Adding the --explore option guarantees that the Windows file
explorer is opened, regardless of the supplied pathname's file type and
avoiding possibility of some other action being taken.
So, teach git-gui to use cygstart --explore on Cygwin, restoring the
pre-2012 behavior of opening a Windows file explorer for browsing.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
git-gui.sh | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index b5dba80..523770a 100755
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -2276,6 +2276,8 @@ proc do_git_gui {} {
proc get_explorer {} {
if {[is_Windows]} {
set explorer "explorer.exe"
+ } elseif {[is_Cygwin]} {
+ set explorer "/bin/cygstart.exe --explore"
} elseif {[is_MacOSX]} {
set explorer "open"
} else {
--
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