git-gui: check whether systems nice command works or disable it

This fixes issue 394 from msysgit. It seems that the Gnuwin32 project
provides a nice command but it returns a "not implemented" error. To
help users we now try to execute once and disable it in case it fails.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
index 85fbc021fe93071c014677a509e183dcec699985..549f59ba73c1496dde635d6f4035a3678ba7bcdf 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui.sh
@@ -388,6 +388,9 @@ proc _lappend_nice {cmd_var} {
 
        if {![info exists _nice]} {
                set _nice [_which nice]
 
        if {![info exists _nice]} {
                set _nice [_which nice]

+               if {[catch {exec $_nice git version}]} {
+                       set _nice {}
+               }

        }
        if {$_nice ne {}} {
                lappend cmd $_nice
        }
        if {$_nice ne {}} {
                lappend cmd $_nice