When calling `Repository>Create Desktop Shortcut`, Git GUI assumes that it is okay to call `wish.exe` directly on Windows. However, in Git for Windows 2.x' context, that leaves several crucial environment variables uninitialized, resulting in a shortcut that does not work.
To fix those environment variable woes, Git for Windows comes with a convenient `git-gui.exe`, so let's just use it when it is available. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/448 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> --- lib/shortcut.tcl | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/shortcut.tcl b/lib/shortcut.tcl index 78878ef..715916b 100644 --- a/lib/shortcut.tcl +++ b/lib/shortcut.tcl @@ -11,11 +11,17 @@ proc do_windows_shortcut {} { if {[file extension $fn] ne {.lnk}} { set fn ${fn}.lnk } + # Use /cmd/git-gui.exe if available + set normalized [file normalize $::argv0] + regsub "/mingw../libexec/git-core/git-gui$" \ + $normalized "/cmd/git-gui.exe" cmdLine + if {$cmdLine != $normalized && [file exists $cmdLine]} { + set cmdLine [list [file nativename $cmdLine]] + } else { + set cmdLine [list [info nameofexecutable] $normalized] + } if {[catch { - win32_create_lnk $fn [list \ - [info nameofexecutable] \ - [file normalize $::argv0] \ - ] \ + win32_create_lnk $fn $cmdLine \ [file normalize $_gitworktree] } err]} { error_popup [strcat [mc "Cannot write shortcut:"] "\n\n$err"] -- 2.5.3.windows.1.3.gc322723 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
