From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannu Koivisto Subject: Re: git bisect view's use of DISPLAY environment variable in Cygwin Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:31:05 +0200 Organization: NOYB Message-ID: <83abcncyue.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> References: <83wsfs1y6v.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <83skqg1uc9.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <83iqrccpmk.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <83ej20cndw.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 29 14:32:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KvBA3-0000TL-NP for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:32:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753905AbYJ2NbW (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:31:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753879AbYJ2NbW (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:31:22 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33063 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753816AbYJ2NbV (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:31:21 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KvB8o-0008BN-5M for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:31:18 +0000 Received: from s2.org ([195.197.64.39]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:31:18 +0000 Received: from azure by s2.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:31:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s2.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KD9D0kVC7gmGmTVrrfgWBvwtcSs= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > I submitted a patch a while ago, saying > > bisect view: call gitk if Cygwin's SESSIONNAME variable is set > > See > http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=commitdiff;h=a2637a3a003646c69ab5a6b85f0ee1bfac15e0b0 Unfortunately this approach doesn't seem to work if you run git bisect view from, say, cmd (probably applies to other non-Cygwin shells as well). I'm puzzled as to why this happens; I wrote a simple shell script that echoes $SESSIONNAME and no matter how I run it from cmd it always echoes Console. It's certainly better than nothing and I wouldn't mind it ending up to the official git but... -- Hannu