Cannot launch git gui using cygwin on windows

Question

I used to launch git gui within my cygwin console without any problems but since I updated cygwin I\'ve got the following error message:

$ git gui
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Answer 1

Based on AndrewD's answer: Use cygwin's git, but use Windows Git's gitk and git gui. In other words, uninstall the git-gui and gitk packages from cygwin (if installed). Then which gitk should point to the Windows file, not the cygwin binary in /usr/bin.