Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #64249, comment 6


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Jan 22, 2022, 12:36:28 PM (2 years ago)
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ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
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  • Ticket #64249, comment 6

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    11Yes, I had tried that, to no avail.
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    3 It turns out that this git-gui.tcl script makes stupid and useless error messages.  In most situations of errors it just dumps this stupid usage message instead of forging a genuine error message that tells what it's unhappy about.  And once you hacked your way into the script and add details, you find out that this script looks at its name (argv[0]) to decide what to do.  And it is taught to recognize `git-gui`, not `git-gui.tcl`...
     3It turns out that this git-gui.tcl script makes stupid and useless error messages.  In most situations of errors it just dumps this stupid usage message instead of forging a genuine error message that tells what it's unhappy about.  And once you hacked your way into the script and add details, you find out that this script looks at its name (argv![0]) to decide what to do.  And it is taught to recognize `git-gui`, not `git-gui.tcl`...
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    55So I have `ln -s git-gui.tcl git-gui` and now `/opt/local/bin/wish /opt/local/share/git-gui/lib/git-gui` works properly (no argument such as browser is needed).