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Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes:

> And can this possibly be related to the previously reported issue where
> bash's choice of terminal control functions would cause execution of
> gitk as a background process to exit bash?
> 


If I start mintty with vt100 as the termtype, then the problem seems to go away.
Hope that helps.



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