From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:29:45 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [PATCH] gitk: Show an error and exit if no .git could be found
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3-rc5~24^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c87d60cc6202d4de5ac6d136394602feefeafc6;p=git.git

[PATCH] gitk: Show an error and exit if no .git could be found

This is to help people starting gitk from graphical file managers where
the stderr output is hidden.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
---

diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index b0a76dd22..769c79ab0 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -7636,7 +7636,10 @@ catch {source ~/.gitk}
 font create optionfont -family sans-serif -size -12
 
 # check that we can find a .git directory somewhere...
-set gitdir [gitdir]
+if {[catch {set gitdir [gitdir]}]} {
+    show_error {} . "Cannot find a git repository here."
+    exit 1
+}
 if {![file isdirectory $gitdir]} {
     show_error {} . "Cannot find the git directory \"$gitdir\"."
     exit 1