On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:10, W.P. McNeill <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a bit of confusion getting GitX to work from the MacPorts > install. I'm documenting it here in case others have the same > problem. > > I installed GitX from MacPorts. I then typed "gitx" at the command > line and saw a "Couldn't connect to app server!" error message. The > GitX home page says that you have to run "GitX->Enable Terminal Usage" > from the GUI version of GitX before it can be launched from the > shell. However, when you install from MacPorts, GitX is not installed > in your Applications folder, so it is unclear how to launch the GUI > for the first time. > > The workaround is to find the GitX GUI app in the MacPorts tree. On > my machine it is in the /opt/local/var/macports/software/GitX/0.7.1_0/ > Applications/MacPorts folder. Launch this app from Finder, and run > "GitX->Enable Terminal Usage". Afterwards the gitx command will work > from the command line. > > Hope this saves others a few minutes of confusion.
You should file a ticket at http://trac.macports.org regarding this. Cheers Adam
