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Author SHA1 Message Date
Heiko Voigt
fc17e5e5bd git-gui: fix shortcut creation on cygwin
When the user tried to create a desktop icon with git gui on cygwin
wscript was complaining about an unknown option and displaying the
non-native path as such.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
2010-07-30 10:05:26 +01:00
Shawn O. Pearce
51a41ac4ef git-gui: Use proper Windows shortcuts instead of bat files
On Windows its better to use a shortcut (.lnk file) over a batch
script (.bat) as we can specify the icon file for the .lnk and
thus have these git specific objects appear on the desktop with
that git specific icon file.

Unfortunately the authors of Tcl did not bless us with the APIs
needed to create shortcuts from within Tcl.  But Microsoft did
give us Windows Scripting Host which allows us to execute some
JavaScript that calls some sort of COM object that can operate
on a .lnk file.

We now build both Cygwin and non-Cygwin "desktop icons" as proper
Windows .lnk files, using the "Start in" property of these files
to indicate the working directory of the repository the user wants
to launch.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-10-12 23:07:58 -04:00