App version broken in macOS Monterrey

[darksylinc]

What works

1. ./git-cola.app/Contents/MacOS/git-cola from Terminal (Terminal has Full Disk Access)
2. git-cola (from Terminal, installed by brew, Terminal has Full Disk Access)

What doesn't work

1. open git-cola.app
2. Double clicking git-cola.app from within Finder or Launchpad

What happens

The GUI to select which repository opens fine. But after trying to open a repository, the app will just close with no feedback (likely a crash)

Diagnostic

It appears to be a permission problem:

All those System Policy: ... deny ... file-read-data appear right after I double click the repository to open in git-cola and crashes /Users/matias/Documents/git-cola is the repository I'm trying to open.

Adding git-cola.app and /usr/bin/git to Full Disk Access doesn't fix it:

[davvid]

Did you build it using make git-cola.app?

I pushed in a couple of commits that may or may not help. The Makefile was updated so that git-cola.app is made to be fully insulated within the app bundle. Previously, it relied on symlinks to the python installation.

Furthermore, I updated the Info.plist file to request permissions.

The downside is that I'm unable to reproduce these errors even though I'm also on Monterrey, so I have no idea if these changes make any difference.

There's a bunch of app notarization stuff in newer versions of macOS that make some of this stuff more challenging. Hopefully we can still keep the app bundle as an option for some users, but I'll need some help figuring out what's going on.

[dxkrs]

I install the git-cola step by step on my macos 12.6

cd ~
brew update
brew install git-cola

then I run

make git-cola.app

it show the error :

make: *** No rule to make target `git-cola'.  Stop.

Application fold haven't the app, enter the command git-cola can open the git-cola gui which only have a "Python" on the top left menu.

What wrong?

[davvid]

You have to be inside a clone of the git-cola repository when running make git-cola.app.

[davvid]

For reference, this step moved you back to your $HOME directory:

cd ~

If you cloned cola to a directory called git-cola in your current directory then you would need to use cd git-cola after cloning it to enter that directory.