[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 b0a76dd..769c79a 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -7636,7 +7636,10 @@
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
