From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannu Koivisto Subject: git bisect view's use of DISPLAY environment variable in Cygwin Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:28:24 +0200 Organization: NOYB Message-ID: <83wsfs1y6v.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 Tue Oct 28 17:30:04 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 1KurSA-0002ID-7F for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:29:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752326AbYJ1Q2p (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:28:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752261AbYJ1Q2p (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:28:45 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52195 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752132AbYJ1Q2o (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:28:44 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KurQr-0002HE-EW for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:37 +0000 Received: from s2.org ([195.197.64.39]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:37 +0000 Received: from azure by s2.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:28:37 +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:wefPnL+GCllPW0YGQKO6iY9nwPQ= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Greetings, git bisect view uses gitk if DISPLAY environment variable is set and git log otherwise. Since gitk doesn't require X server in Cygwin, that seems like a bit questionable condition in that environment. I'd prefer it to use gitk unless an option given. I think an option would be preferable (to DISPLAY= git bisect view) in Unix as well if you have DISPLAY set but you want it to use git log. -- Hannu