Hi Luca,
- It seems that when you launch >>git gui from the MATLAB command window, MATLAB is waiting for the git gui process to finish before it can continue executing commands. However, since git gui is a graphical user interface, it does not terminate until the user closes it manually. This leads to MATLAB being stuck in a loop.
- One possible solution to this problem is to launch git gui in the background, so that MATLAB does not wait for it to finish. You can do this by adding an ampersand (&) at the end of the command as follows:
!git gui &
- This should launch git gui in the background and allow you to continue using MATLAB without being stuck in a loop.
- Another solution to this issue is you can use the system command instead of the ‘!’ command to run the git gui command. The system command waits for the process to terminate before continuing execution, so it will not get stuck in a busy status loop.
- Here is an example of how you can run the git gui command using the system command:
[status, result] = system('git gui');
- This will launch the git gui process and wait for it to terminate before continuing execution. The status variable will contain the exit status of the process and result variable will contain any output produced by the process.
Answer to your bonus question:
- when you run >> git rebase -i HEAD~n from the MATLAB command window, it should open the text file in your default text editor. If you want to use a specific text editor, you can set the EDITOR environment variable before running the command:
setenv('EDITOR', 'nano') % Set the editor to nano
!git rebase -i HEAD~n
You can read more about the system and setenv functions from the following documentations: system Function, setenv Function
Hope it helps!
Regards,
Gayatri Rathod
