I have Ubuntu 14.04LTS 64bit.
I installed GitExtensions by first installing Mono
sudo apt-get install mono-complete
and then downloading and unzipping both GitExtensions_2.48.05 (the latest at time of writing) and GitExtensions_2.44 (as recommended here). Run them using
mono GitExtensions.exe
Both versions are identically unusably unreliable.
Two examples:
The UI is broken: nothing appears under "Common Actions" or "Recent Repositories" - although I can work around that using menu options.
Open a repository, make a few changes, click Commit -> the Commit dialogue appears. Click the close (X) button on that and the app crashes - 100% repeatable. Console output below.
I use Git Extensions on Windows at work and it's never missed a beat.
I'm not really looking to debug the app - but for whether this does actually work in a usable way on Ubuntu. Has anyone got it working? What's the magic spell please?
SendMessage (75498426, 0xbb, (nil), (nil))
SendMessage (75498426, 0xc1, (nil), (nil))
SendMessage (75498426, 0x439, (nil), 0x7fff05218298)
SendMessage (75498426, 0xbb, (nil), (nil))
SendMessage (75498426, 0xc1, (nil), (nil))
SendMessage (75498426, 0x439, (nil), 0x7fff05219a28)
System.InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type.
at System.Windows.Forms.Control+ControlNativeWindow.ControlFromHandle (IntPtr hWnd) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.FromHandle (IntPtr handle) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.X11Keyboard.MoveCurrentCaretPos () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.MoveResizeWindow (IntPtr display, IntPtr window, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.PerformNCCalc (System.Windows.Forms.Hwnd hwnd) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUIX11.GetWindowPos (IntPtr handle, Boolean is_toplevel, System.Int32& x, System.Int32& y, System.Int32& width, System.Int32& height, System.Int32& client_width, System.Int32& client_height) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.XplatUI.GetWindowPos (IntPtr handle, Boolean is_toplevel, System.Int32& x, System.Int32& y, System.Int32& width, System.Int32& height, System.Int32& client_width, System.Int32& client_height) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.UpdateBounds () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmWindowPosChanged (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmWindowPosChanged (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Control+ControlWindowTarget.OnMessage (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.Control+ControlNativeWindow.WndProc (System.Windows.Forms.Message& m) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.WndProc (IntPtr hWnd, Msg msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
Unhandled Exception:
System.ArgumentException: A null reference or invalid value was found [GDI+ status: InvalidParameter]
at System.Drawing.GDIPlus.CheckStatus (Status status) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Drawing.Graphics.GdipMeasureString (IntPtr graphics, System.String text, System.Drawing.Font font, System.Drawing.RectangleF& layoutRect, IntPtr stringFormat) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Drawing.Graphics.MeasureString (System.String text, System.Drawing.Font font, Int32 width, System.Drawing.StringFormat format) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Drawing.Graphics:MeasureString (string,System.Drawing.Font,int,System.Drawing.StringFormat)
at System.Windows.Forms.TextRenderer.MeasureTextInternal (IDeviceContext dc, System.String text, System.Drawing.Font font, Size proposedSize, TextFormatFlags flags, Boolean useMeasureString) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.TextRenderer.MeasureText (System.String text, System.Drawing.Font font, Size proposedSize, TextFormatFlags flags) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.OnParentChanged (System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip oldParent, System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip newParent) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.set_Parent (System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem:set_Parent (System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemCollection.Remove (System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.Dispose (Boolean disposing) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDownItem.Dispose (Boolean disposing) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.Dispose (Boolean disposing) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.ComponentModel.Component.Finalize () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
sudo apt-get install git mono-complete kdiff3 putty ssh
to make it work. But still it crashes all the time. I switched to using GitKraken on Linux for now.