How to make Custom Action not waiting for script ends

[Oliver Zhou]

Hi Author,

I have a custom action that call Tortiesehg Patch Reject File Editor since SourceTree currently doesn't provide this feature.

I wrote a script like this:

#!/bin/bash

source ~/.bash_profile
echo $PYTHONPATH
echo $PATH

thg rejects $1

SourceTree will hang until I close the patch reject file editor window, that's not really what I expect.

Is it possible to provide an option that let SourceTree not wait for the script ending?

[stevestreeting · Accepted solution]

Two ways:

1. Enable the 'Open in a Separate Window' option on the Custom Action. This makes the command execute in a separate window which is not modal on the repository so you don't have to wait
2. Add '&' to the end of your thg command so that the process is not blocking on the script

[Oliver Zhou]

I tried them both, but unfortunently doesn't work for me.

[stevestreeting]

Please define "doesn't work".

[Oliver Zhou]

It just has no change, SourceTree still hang

[stevestreeting]

'Hang'? No Custom Action I've ever seen causes this. Are you sure thg just doesn't like being called like this?

[Oliver Zhou]

Finally I figure out the solution. It's not a problem of SourceTree

Use --nofork option for thg so that it will not run a background job for THG GUI.

thg --nofork rejects $1