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prati0100 / git-gui

Tcl/Tk based UI for Git. I am currently acting as the project's maintainer.
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Can't paste copied text after closing git gui #23

Closed dorian-marchal closed 4 years ago

dorian-marchal commented 4 years ago

Text copied in git gui (Right click > Copy) can only be pasted while git gui is running. Once it's closed, the copied text is removed from the clipboard (i.e. pasting doesn't work).

Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.

Note: gitk suffers from the same issue.

prati0100 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for reporting. I can reproduce the issue on my setup (running Fedora 30).

But I don't think this is a git-gui bug. Firstly, all git-gui does is call tk_textCopy on the diff body widget. tk_textCopy is implemented by Tcl/Tk and we don't have any hand in it.

Further, I can see this behavior present in Firefox too (as an example). So, looking around, it is actually a rather notorious bug. In fact, there is even a Ubuntu wiki entry about it.

So, you should report this bug to Tk instead.