Comment lines are stripped by wash_commit_message, but there is no
indication in the UI that they are special and will be removed.
Grey these lines out to indicate that they will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Faust <contrib-git@wolfgangfaust.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* 'pks-meson-fixes' of github.com:pks-gitlab/git-gui:
git-gui: wire up "git-gui--askyesno" with Meson
git-gui: massage "git-gui--askyesno" with "generate-script.sh"
git-gui: prefer shell at "/bin/sh" with Meson
git-gui: fix use of GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
The new "git-gui--askyesno" helper script has only been wired up for our
Makefile, not for Meson. Wire it up properly to bring both build systems
on par with each other again.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
In e749c87 (git-gui: provide question helper for retry fallback on
Windows, 2025-08-28) we have introudced a new "git-gui--askyesno" helper
script. While the script is conceptually similar to our existing helper
script "git-gui--askpass", we don't massage it via "generate-script.sh".
This means that build options like the path to the wish shell are not
propagated correctly.
Fix this issue.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Meson detects the path of the target shell via `find_program("sh")`,
which essentially does a lookup via `PATH`. We know that almost all
systems have "/bin/sh" available though, which makes it the superior
choice as a default value.
Adapt `find_program()` to prefer "/bin/sh" over any other "sh"
executable.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
The GIT-VERSION-GEN script sets up GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES so that we
won't accidentally parse version information from an unrelated parent
repository. The ceiling is derived from the source directory by simply
appendign "/.." to it, which mean that we'll only consider the current
directory for repository discovery.
This works alright in the case where git-gui is built as a standalone
project, but it breaks when git-gui is embedded into a _related_ parent
project. This is for example how git-gui is distributed via Git.
Interestingly enough, the version information is still derived properly
when building git-gui via Git's Makefile. In that case we eventually end
up specifying the ceiling directory as "./.." as we use relative paths
there, and that seems to not restrict the repository discovery.
But when building via Meson we specify the source directory as an
absolute path, and if so the repository discovery _is_ stopped. The
consequence is that we won't be able to derive the version in that case.
Fix the issue by adding a new optional parameter to GIT-VERSION-GEN that
allows the caller to override the parent project directory and wire up
new build options for Meson and Make that allows users to specify it.
Note that by default we won't set the parent project directory. This
isn't required for Meson anyway as we already use absolute paths there,
but for our Makefile it means that we still end up with "./.." as
ceiling directory, which is ineffective. But using e.g. pwd(1) as the
default value would break downstream's version generation, unless we
updated git-gui and the Makefile at the same point in time.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
When reviewing a change before staging, it is desirable to see text after
tabstops aligned the same way as in the text editor. However, since there
is always an additional character in column one in patch text ('+', '-',
or space), the alignment is broken if text before the first tab character
is just long enough to push the stop to the next tab position.
Commit a43c5f51a4 (git-gui: add configurable tab size to the diff view,
2012-02-12) added infrastructure that manipulates the tabstop positions
of the Tk text widget. However, it does so only when a 3-way diff is
shown and only so that it takes into account the one additional markup at
the beginning of lines. This only achieved that alignment does not get
worse for 3-way diffs compared to regular patch text, but left misaligned
text in regular patch text unmodified.
Use and modify this infrastructure to shift tabstops by one position for
regular patch text and two positions for 3-way diffs. Existing code
already resets the tabstops to an unshifted position when contents of
untracked files are displayed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Idema <github_chris_idema@proton.me>
[j6t: extend commit message]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
When a commit is viewed in Gitk that changes a file in po/glossary, the
patch text shows mojibake instead of correctly decoded UTF-8 text.
Gitk retrieves the encoding attribute to decide how to treat the bytes
that make up the patch text. There is an attribute definition that all
files are US-ASCII, and a later attribute definition overrides this.
But the override, which specifies UTF-8, applies only to *.po files in
directory po/ and does not apply to subdirectories.
Widen the pattern to apply to all directory levels.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
- Translate new string (558t)
- Add graves for disambiguation
- Improve glossary translation (96t) and synchonize with git
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shopov <ash@kambanaria.org>
In git.git, commit 5309c1e9fb (Makefile: set default goals in
makefiles, 2025-02-15) touched two Makefiles in the git-git/ directory.
Import these changes, so that the trees can converge again with the
next merge of this repository into git.git.
Reported-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* js/ask-yesno:
git-gui--askyesno (mingw): use Git for Windows' icon, if available
git-gui--askyesno: allow overriding the window title
git gui: set GIT_ASKPASS=git-gui--askpass if not set yet
git-gui: provide question helper for retry fallback on Windows
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
The command Revert Changes has two different erroneous behaviors
depending on the Tcl version used.
The command uses a "chord" facility where different "notes" are
evaluated asynchronously and any error is reported after all of them
have finished. The intent is that a private namespace is used where
the notes can store the error state. Tcl 9 changed namespace handling
in a subtle way, as https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.0.html
summarizes under "Notable incompatibilities":
Unqualified varnames resolved in current namespace, not global.
Note that in almost all cases where this causes a change, the
change is actually the removal of a latent bug.
And that's exactly what happens here.
- Under Tcl 9:
- When the command operates without any errors, the variable `err`
is never set. When the error handler wants to inspect `err` (in
the correct private namespace), it does not find it and a Tcl
error about an unset variable occurs. Incidentally, this is also
the case when the user cancels the operation with the option
"Do Nothing"!
On the other hand, when an error occurs during the operation, `err`
is set and found as intended.
Check for the existence of the variable `err` before the attempt to
read it.
- Under Tcl 8.6:
The error handler looks up `err` in the global namespace, which is
bogus and unintended. The variable is set due to the many
`catch ... err` that occur during startup in the global namespace.
- When the command operates without any errors, the error handler
finds the global `err`, which happens to be the empty string at
this point, and no error is reported.
On the other hand, when an error occurs during the operation, the
global `err` is set and found, so that an error is reported as
desired.
However, the value of `err` persists in the global namespace. When
the command is repeated, an error is reported again, even if there
was actually no error, and even "Do Nothing" was used to cancel
the operation.
Clear the global `err` before the operation begins.
The lingering error message is not a problem under Tcl 9, because a
prestine namespace is established every time the command is used.
This fixes https://github.com/j6t/git-gui/issues/21.
Helped-by: Igor Stepushchik
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
This provides a unified look-and-feel in Git for Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
"Question?" is maybe not the most informative thing to ask. In the
absence of better information, it is the best we can do, of course.
However, Git for Windows' auto updater just learned the trick to use
git-gui--askyesno to ask the user whether to update now or not. And in
this scripted scenario, we can easily pass a command-line option to
change the window title.
So let's support that with the new `--title <title>` option.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Make use of the new environment variable GIT_ASK_YESNO to support the
recently implemented fallback in case unlink, rename or rmdir fail for
files in use on Windows. The added dialog will present a yes/no question
to the the user which will currently be used by the windows compat layer
to let the user retry a failed file operation.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
git-gui invokes some long running commands using "nice git $cmd" if nice
is found and works, otherwise just "git $cmd". The current code is more
complex than needed; let's simplify it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
git-gui since 8fe7861c51 ("git-gui: assure PATH has only absolute
elements.", 2025-04-11) uses a list to maintain order and a dict to
detect duplicated elements without quadratic complexity. But, Tcl's
dict explicitly maintains keys in the order first added, thus the list
is not needed. Simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* cb/no-tcl86-on-macos:
git-gui: ensure own version of git-gui--askpass is used
git-gui: honor TCLTK_PATH in git-gui--askpass
git-gui: retire Git Gui.app
git-gui: fix dependency of GITGUI_MAIN on generator
git-gui: remove uname_O in Makefile
When finding a location for the askpass helper, git will be asked
for its exec path, but if that git is not the same that called
git-gui then we might mistakenly point to its helper instead.
Assume that git-gui and the helper are colocated to derive its
path instead.
This is specially useful in macOS where a broken version of that
helper is provided by the system git.
[j6t: move directory to variable to help in-flight topics]
Suggested-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* 'strip-post-hooks' of github.com:orgads/git-gui:
git-gui: strip the commit message after running commit-msg hook
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* ml/tcl90:
git-gui: Allow Tcl 9.0
git-gui: use -profile tcl8 on encoding conversions
git-gui: use -profile tcl8 for file input with Tcl 9
git-gui: themed.tcl: use full namespace for color
git-gui: remove EOL translation for gets
git-gui: do not mix -translation binary and -encoding
git-gui: replace encoding binary with iso8859-1
git-gui: translation binary defines iso8859-1
git-gui: assure -eofchar {} on all channels
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
* 'master' of https://github.com/alshopov/git-gui:
git-gui i18n: Remove the locations within the Bulgarian translation
git-gui i18n: Update Bulgarian translation (557t)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
TclTk 9.0 is now shipping, and git-gui is now patched to support use of
this newer version. Adjust required versions to allow Tcl/Tk >= 8.6,
including 9.x.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui in the prior commit learned to apply -profile tcl8 when reading
files, avoiding errors on non-binary data streams whose encoding is not
utf-8. But, git-gui also consumes binary data streams (generally blobs
from commits) as the output of commands, and internally decodes this to
support various displays.
With Tcl9, errors occur in this decoding for the same reasons described
in the previous commit: basically, the underlying data may contain
extended ascii characters violating the assumption of utf-8 encoding.
This problem has a similar fix to the prior issue: we must use the tlc8
profile when converting this data to the internal unicode format. Do so,
again only on Tcl9 as Tcl8.6 does not recognize -profile, and only Tcl
9.0 makes strict the default.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui invokes many git commands expecting output in utf-8 encoding,
but git accepts extended ascii (code page unknown) as utf-8 without
validating, so cannot guarantee valid utf-8 on output. In particular,
using any extended ascii code page has long been acceptable on git given
that everyone on a project is aware of and uses that same code page to
view all data. utf-8 accepts only 7-bit ascii characters in single
bytes, and any characters outside of that base set require at least two
bytes for representation in unicode.
Tcl is a string based language, and transcodes all input data to an
internal unicode format, and to whatever format is requested on output:
"pure" binary is recoded byte by byte using iso8859-1. Tcl8.x silently
recodes invalid utf-8 as binary data, so extended ascii characters
maintain their binary value on output but may not display correctly.
Tcl 8.7 added three profiles to control this behaviour: strict (raises
exceptions), replace (replaces each invalid byte with ?), and the
default tcl8 maintaining the old behavior. Tcl 9 changes the default
profile to strict, meaning any invalid utf-8 raises an exception that
git-gui does not handle.
An example of this in the git repository is commit 7eb93c8965 ("[PATCH]
Simplify git script", 2005-09-07). This includes extended ascii
characters in the author name and commit message.
The tcl8 profile used so far has acceptable behavior given git-gui's
acceptance: this allows git-gui to accept extended ascii though it may
display incorrectly. Let's continue that behavior by overriding open to
use the tcl8 profile on Tcl9 and later: Tcl 8.6 does not understand
fconfigure -profile, and Tcl 8.7 maintains the tcl8 profile.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Tcl 9 imposes strict requirements on namespaces for variables, while Tcl
8 does not. lib/themed.tcl does not use the fully qualified name for the
"color" namespace, with result that variables are not found with Tcl
9.0. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui configures '-translation lf' on a number of channels. The
default configuration is 'auto', which on input changes any occurrence
of \n, \r, or \r\n to \n, and on output changes any such EOL sequence to
a platform dependent value (\n on Unix, \r\n on Windows). Such
translation can be necessary, but much of what is configured now is
redundant.
In particular, many of the channels configured this way are then
consumed by gets, which already recognizes any of \n, \r, or \r\n as
terminators. Configuring a channel to first change these line endings,
then give the result to gets, is redundant.
The valid uses of -translation lf are for output where we do not want
\r\n on Windows, and for consuming entire files without going through
gets, assuring that \n will be used internally. Let's remove all the
others that only serve to confuse.
lib/diff.tcl must have -translation lf because \r\n might be stored in
the repository (e.g., on Windows, with no crlf translation enabled), and
git will treat \n as the line ending, while the preceding \r is just
whitespace, and these may be split by ANSI color coding. git-gui's
read_diff handles this correctly as-is.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
* ml/windows-tie-loose-ends:
git-gui: use /cmd/git-gui.exe for shortcut
git-gui: Windows tk_getSaveFile is not useful for shortcuts
git-gui: let nice work on Windows
git-gui: do not add directories to PATH on Windows
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Since its introduction in 8c76212 (git-gui: Add a simple implementation
of SSH_ASKPASS., 2008-10-15), git-gui--askpass has been calling whatever
wish interpreter is in the path, unlike git-gui.
Correct that by turning it into a script that would be processed at build
time.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
In a recent commit, the minimum version of Tcl/Tk was raised to
8.6, but the "app" relies on the system provided Framework that
is based on 8.5.
Remove it, and let git-gui use a third party version of Wish if
available.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Since 854e883 (git-gui: extract script to generate "git-gui",
2025-03-11), the logic to generate the main script was pulled
out of the Makefile, but adding the resulting generator as a
dependency was missed.
If the logic changes, the main script should be regenerated, so
add it as a dependency.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Last used in ae49066 (git gui Makefile - remove Cygwin modifications,
2023-06-26), and unused since.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
git-gui has many instances of '-translation binary' and '-encoding
$SOMETHING' on the same channel. As eofchar is always null given a
prior commit, the net effect of having '-translation binary' in such
configuration is only to change how text line endings are handled.
For cases where the channel is opened to be consumed via gets, the eol
translation is irrelevant because Tcl's gets is documented to recognize
any of \n, \r, and \r\n as a line ending. So, keep only the '-encoding
$SOMETHING' configuration in these cases, making the configuration more
clear.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui currently configures some channels as '-encoding binary' when
the channel is not really binary (e.g, the channel is consumed as lines
of text). In 8.6, '-encoding binary' is an alias for '-encoding
iso8859), but TIP 699 removes this alias for Tcl 9.0. Let's switch to
'-encoding iso8859-1' to be compatible across Tcl versions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui has many cases where -translation binary and -encoding binary
are configured on the same channel. But, -translation binary defines a
binary channel, which sets up -encoding iso8859-1 as part of its work.
Tcl 8.x defines -encoding binary as an alias of -encoding iso8859-1, and
this alias is deleted in Tcl 9.0. Let's delete the redundant encoding
definition now.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Per 6eb420ef61 ("git-gui: Always disable the Tcl EOF character when
reading", 2007-07-17), git-gui should disable Tcl's EOF character
detection on all files when on Windows: the default is disabled on all
other platforms (and with Tcl 9.0, is disabled on Windows too). This
EOF character is for compatibility with files / applications written for
file systems that know only the disc sectors allocated, and not the
number of bytes used. This has nothing to do with git.
But, git-gui does not set -eofchar {} on all channels. To avoid any
further leakage, let's just add this to the Windows specific override of
open. This override is needed only as long as Tcl 8.x is in use (Tcl
9.0 makes -eofchar {} default on all platforms).
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui on Windows creates a shortcut that presumes the git-gui script
will run on the basic Windows environment as configured. But, Git for
Windows uses wrapper scripts to launch executables, assuring the
environment is correct (see [1] for details). The launcher for git-gui
is /cmd/git-gui.exe, is not on PATH, and is not detected or used by the
current shortcut code. Let's look for this before trying the existing
approaches.
[1] https://gitforwindows.org/git-wrapper.html
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui has _search_exe as needed to give the executable suffix
(.exe) on Windows. But, the prior commit eliminated the only user of
this variable. Delete it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
gitexec looks up and caches the method to execute git subcommands using
the long deprecated dashed form if found in $(git--exec-path). But,
git_read and git_write now use the dashless form, by-passing gitexec.
This leaves two remaining uses of gitexec: one during startup to define
use of an ssh_key helper, and one in the about dialog box. These are
neither performance critical nor likely to be called more than once, so
do not justify an otherwise unused cacheing system.
Let's change those two uses, making gitexec unused. This allows removing
gitexec and _git_cmd.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui implements its own approach to locating and running various git
subcommands, bypassing git's capabilities for running git-*. This was
written in 2007: at that time, many git commands were shell-scripts
stored in $(git --exec-path), git's run-command api was not well adapted
to Windows and had serious performance issues when it worked at all, and
running subcommand 'git foo' as 'git-foo' was common and fully supported.
On Windows, git-gui searches $(git --exec-path) for builtin commands,
then attempts to find an interpreter on PATH to run those, invoking
these differently than on other platforms. For instance, the explicit
shebang #!/usr/bin/perl found in a script will be run by the first Perl
interpreter found on $PATH, which might not be at that specific location
so could be different than what git would run.
The various issues leading to the current implemention no longer exist.
Most git commands are now builtins, links to run those are not installed
in $(git --exec-path) by default (the "dashless" form is recommended
instead), and git's run-command api works well everywhere.
So, let's use git to launch its subcommands on all platforms. Do so by
modifying procs git_read and git_write to use the "dashless" form for
invoking git commands, avoiding the search for git-<foo>. This leaves
_git_cmd unused with cleanup in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
git-gui's default clone method is git-clone's default, and this uses
hardlinks rather than copying the objects directory for local
repositories. However, this method explicitly fails if a symlink (or
.gitfile) exists in the path to the objects directory. Thus, the default
clone option fails for worktrees created by git-new-workdir or
git-worktree. git-gui's original do_clone trapped this error for a
symlinked git-new-workdir tree, directly falling back to a full clone,
while the updated git-gui using git-clone does not. (The old do_clone
could not handle gitfile linked worktrees, however).
Let's apply the more friendly fallback to a full clone in both these
cases where git-clone behavior throws an error on the default method.
Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
