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diff --git a/development/git-cola/README b/development/git-cola/README index 84bd80501c..b771bc1e12 100644 --- a/development/git-cola/README +++ b/development/git-cola/README @@ -1 +1,21 @@ git-cola is a Python-powered GPL licensed GUI for git. + +Qt4 warning, the website says: + +"NOTE: We do not yet recommend using PyQt5 because there are known +exit-on-segfault bugs in Qt5 that have not yet been addressed. git-cola +is sensitive to this bug and is known to crash on exit when using git dag +or the interactive rebase feature on PyQt5. + +QTBUG-52988 (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-52988) + +PyQt4 is stable and there are no known issues when using it so we +recommend using PyQt4 until the Qt5 bugs have been resolved. + +Set QT_API=pyqt4 in your environment if you have both versions of PyQt +installed and want to ensure that PyQt4 is used. + +NOTE: git-cola includes a vendored copy of its QtPy dependency." + +That said, if you set QT_API=pyqt4 git-cola segfaults, but it works fine +with Qt5 and PyQt5 from AlienBOB's repository. |