Starting gitk on OS X displays a GreaseKit error

Question

When I load gitk (git version 1.6.5.1) on OS X (SL) I recieve an error/warning about GreaseKit:

Error loading /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/GreaseKit.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GreaseKit: dlopen(/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/GreaseKit.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GreaseKit, 265): no suitable image found. Did find: /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/GreaseKit.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GreaseKit: GC capability mismatch

gitk does start and appears to be functional. Has anyone seen this? Any need to be concerned?

Thanks,
Scott

Answer 1

Whatever version of GreaseKit is installed on your machine (as /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/GreaseKit.bundle) is not GC-compatible with your gitk binary. It means that GreaseKit will not be available in gitk.

Unless you were planning on using GreaseKit inside gitk it is not a problem (does gitk even use WebKit?). Probably the only reason GreaseKit is loading is because its SIMBL configuration says to load GreaseKit into everything, regardless of whether it would ever be useful.

If no one on your machine is using GreaseKit, you might consider deleting it.

Answer 2

I have the same problem on the same system. gitk would not even start for me, however.

Oddly enough, I found that if I executed gitk in a directory that was not actually under git control, it would start and complain about not being in a repository. Then the next time I executed gitk in an actual repository, it started without complaining about GreaseKit, and it's been all good since.

Or you could use GitX, which is quite similar and native OS X: http://gitx.frim.nl/