Qt Creator, Tools -> Git -> Git Tools -> Gitk | Git Gui

[SPlatten]

I am using Qt Creator 4.12.4 Based on Qt 5.15.2 (GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10), 64 bit)

Both GitK and Git Gui menu options are showing as available but selecting either of these does nothing, no messages are reported in any of the various tabs at the bottom and no dialog is displayed. Is this a bug?

[aha_1980]

@SPlatten

I know this topic is old, but I wanted to add my two cent.

Both menu entries are available when you have a project that is under git version control.

The menu entries do not check, if the tools are available, that's up to you to install them.

However, when starting fails you should see an error message in the Version Control panel. In my case, for gitk the pane even pops up saying:

17:40:58 Running in "/home/andre/git/qt-creator": /cmd/gitk .
Cannot launch "/cmd/gitk".Cannot launch "gitk".

For git-gui, it fails silently for me also :(

Regards

[aha_1980]

So it turned out to be more complicated.

The reason for silently failing Git Gui is, that the command git gui is called as detached QProcess. You would get an error if git could not be called, but you won't get an error if git itself fails to call Git Gui.

We could use the same mechanism as for Gitk here, but that is complicated on Windows and seems to need some cleanup before.

I've created QTCREATORBUG-30137 to further track this issue.

Regards