{"thread":{"id":"19236","subject":"Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","startedAt":"2009-05-07T17:27:33Z","lastAt":"2009-05-16T19:19:20Z","messageCount":8,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin","Christian MICHON","Bernt Hansen","Peter Krefting"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"113237","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905071554070.16585@intel-tinevez-2-302","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-05-07T17:27:33Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-07T17:27:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nthis mail tries to inform you that a new version of Git for Windows has \nbeen released. Overall, the differences to Git 1.6.3 have been reduced \ndramatically, thanks to the immense efforts of Johannes Sixt on the test \nsuite.\n\nThere are two major modifications relative to git.git, though: Marius \nStorm-Olsen's readdir() and nedmalloc patches. They are rather large, but \nwell-contained changes, and we tested extensively in the last few weeks.\n\nOne consequence is that the test-suite no longer takes 45 minutes on the \nmachine I test on, but less than 20 minutes.\n\nAnd now, without further ado, the release notes:\n\nGit Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507)\nLast update: 07 May 2009\n\nKnown issues\n\n- Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the \n installation; namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git \n cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git send-email, git shell.\n- The Logitec QuickCam software can cause spurious crashes. See \"Why does \n make often crash creating a sh.exe.stackdump file when I try to compile \n my source code?\" on the MinGW Wiki \n (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Environment_issues)\n- The Quick Launch icon will only be installed for the user running setup \n (typically the Administrator). This is a technical restriction and will \n not change.\n- Git Bash launched through the Explorer shell extension does not have the \n git icon in its taskbar. This is a technical restriction and will not \n change.\n- git send-mail does not work properly (Issue 27).\n- curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc.\n- If you want to specify a different location for --upload-pack, you have \n to start the absolute path with two slashes. Otherwise MSys will mangle \n the path.\n- git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80, \n 108, 159, 188).\n- If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first, \n as you cannot accept the host key due to the console window being \n blocked (Issue 96).\n- MinGW does not support IPv6 yet (Issue 182).\n- When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be \n \"swallowed\" from Git's output (Issue 192).\n- There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem \n not to be reproducible on most computers.\n- As merge tools are executed using the MSys bash, options starting with \n \"/\" need to be handled specially: MSys would interpret that as a POSIX \n path, so you need to double the slash (Issue 226). Example: instead of \n \"/base\", say \"//base\". Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows \n programs Windows paths, as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX \n paths -- You can use something like $(cmd //c echo \"$POSIXPATH\").\n\nChanges since Git-1.6.2.2-preview20090408\n\nNew Features\n\n- Comes with official git 1.6.3.\n- Thanks to Marius Storm-Olsen, Git has a substantially faster readdir() \n implementation now.\n- Marius Storm-Olsen also contributed a patch to include nedmalloc, again \n speeding up Git noticably.\n- Compiled with GCC 4.4.0\n\nBugfixes\n\n- Portable Git contains a README.portable.\n- Portable Git now actually includes the builtins.\n- Portable Git includes git-cmd.bat and git-bash.bat.\n- Portable Git is now shipped as a .7z; it still is a self-extracting \n archive if you rename it to .exe.\n- Git includes the Perl Encode module now.\n- Git now includes the filter-branch tool.\n- There is a workaround for a Windows 7 regression triggering a crash in \n the progress reporting (e.g. during a clone). This fixes issues 236 and \n 247.\n- gitk tries not to crash when it is closed while reading references \n (Issue 125, thanks Pat Thoyts).\n- In some setups, hard-linking is not as reliable as it should be, so we \n have a workaround which avoids hard links in some situations (Issues 222 \n and 229).\n- git-svn sets core.autocrlf to false now, hopefully shutting up most of \n the git-svn reports.\n\nCiao,\nDscho (on behalf of the msysGit team)\n"},{"id":"113263","messageId":"46d6db660905071359l66ff81afkc442f435edadb07f@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905071554070.16585@intel-tinevez-2-302","subject":"Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Christian MICHON","fromEmail":"christian.michon@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-05-07T20:59:42Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-07T20:59:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"christian.michon@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/8a7c327b21187fbcab5c27640a49450eec72e0355dc292501197f27a5a744ec4?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"\nOn Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Johannes Schindelin\n wrote:\n>\n> Hi,\n>\n> this mail tries to inform you that a new version of Git for Windows has\n> been released.  Overall, the differences to Git 1.6.3 have been reduced\n> dramatically, thanks to the immense efforts of Johannes Sixt on the test\n> suite.\n>\n> There are two major modifications relative to git.git, though: Marius\n> Storm-Olsen's readdir() and nedmalloc patches.  They are rather large, but\n> well-contained changes, and we tested extensively in the last few weeks.\n>\n> One consequence is that the test-suite no longer takes 45 minutes on the\n> machine I test on, but less than 20 minutes.\n>\n> And now, without further ado, the release notes:\n>\n> Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507)\n> Last update: 07 May 2009\n>\n> Known issues\n>\n> - Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the\n>  installation; namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git\n>  cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git send-email, git shell.\n> - The Logitec QuickCam software can cause spurious crashes. See \"Why does\n>  make often crash creating a sh.exe.stackdump file when I try to compile\n>  my source code?\" on the MinGW Wiki\n>  (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Environment_issues)\n> - The Quick Launch icon will only be installed for the user running setup\n>  (typically the Administrator). This is a technical restriction and will\n>  not change.\n> - Git Bash launched through the Explorer shell extension does not have the\n>  git icon in its taskbar. This is a technical restriction and will not\n>  change.\n> - git send-mail does not work properly (Issue 27).\n> - curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc.\n> - If you want to specify a different location for --upload-pack, you have\n>  to start the absolute path with two slashes. Otherwise MSys will mangle\n>  the path.\n> - git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80,\n>  108, 159, 188).\n> - If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first,\n>  as you cannot accept the host key due to the console window being\n>  blocked (Issue 96).\n> - MinGW does not support IPv6 yet (Issue 182).\n> - When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be\n>  \"swallowed\" from Git's output (Issue 192).\n> - There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem\n>  not to be reproducible on most computers.\n> - As merge tools are executed using the MSys bash, options starting with\n>  \"/\" need to be handled specially: MSys would interpret that as a POSIX\n>  path, so you need to double the slash (Issue 226).  Example: instead of\n>  \"/base\", say \"//base\".  Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows\n>  programs Windows paths, as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX\n>  paths -- You can use something like $(cmd //c echo \"$POSIXPATH\").\n>\n> Changes since Git-1.6.2.2-preview20090408\n>\n> New Features\n>\n> - Comes with official git 1.6.3.\n> - Thanks to Marius Storm-Olsen, Git has a substantially faster readdir()\n>  implementation now.\n> - Marius Storm-Olsen also contributed a patch to include nedmalloc, again\n>  speeding up Git noticably.\n> - Compiled with GCC 4.4.0\n>\n> Bugfixes\n>\n> - Portable Git contains a README.portable.\n> - Portable Git now actually includes the builtins.\n> - Portable Git includes git-cmd.bat and git-bash.bat.\n> - Portable Git is now shipped as a .7z; it still is a self-extracting\n>  archive if you rename it to .exe.\n> - Git includes the Perl Encode module now.\n> - Git now includes the filter-branch tool.\n> - There is a workaround for a Windows 7 regression triggering a crash in\n>  the progress reporting (e.g. during a clone). This fixes issues 236 and\n>  247.\n> - gitk tries not to crash when it is closed while reading references\n>  (Issue 125, thanks Pat Thoyts).\n> - In some setups, hard-linking is not as reliable as it should be, so we\n>  have a workaround which avoids hard links in some situations (Issues 222\n>  and 229).\n> - git-svn sets core.autocrlf to false now, hopefully shutting up most of\n>  the git-svn reports.\n>\n> Ciao,\n> Dscho (on behalf of the msysGit team)\n>\n>\n\n1st: thanks to all participants for making this possible.\n\n2nd: on my vista system (family premium sp1, French edition), I get a\ngit setup window towards the end of setup saying\n\nLine 620: Unable to read file \"etc\\fileList-builtins.txt\"\n\nBeyond this setup hickup, all seems to be in order and working locally\n(I have not tried pushing stuff yet).\n\n-- \nChristian\n--\nhttp://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !\n"},{"id":"113265","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905072332540.18521@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":"87ocu4vl8a.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca","subject":"Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-05-07T21:35:31Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-07T21:35:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"\nHi,\n\nOn Thu, 7 May 2009, Bernt Hansen wrote:\n\n> Hi Johannes!\n> \n> I just tried installing the new preview version and at the end of the\n> install procedure I get a pop-up with:\n> \n> ,----[ Git Setup ]\n> | Line 620: Unable to read file \"etc\\fileList-builtins.txt\"\n> `----\n> \n> Install System: Asus Eee PC HE1000 running Windows XP on NTFS\n> \n> I removed the previous preview version before trying this installation.\n\nThank you very much!. It was a bug in my build process. Fixed, pushed \nand uploaded as Git-1.6.3-preview20090507-2.exe! (The Portable Git is \nunaffected of this bug.)\n\nCiao,\nDscho\n"},{"id":"113268","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905072341550.18521@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":"46d6db660905071359l66ff81afkc442f435edadb07f@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-05-07T21:43:07Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-07T21:43:07Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"\nHi,\n\nOn Thu, 7 May 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:\n\n> on my vista system (family premium sp1, French edition), I get a git \n> setup window towards the end of setup saying\n> \n> Line 620: Unable to read file \"etc\\fileList-builtins.txt\"\n> \n> Beyond this setup hickup, all seems to be in order and working locally\n> (I have not tried pushing stuff yet).\n\nThanks! Your feedback is really appreciated (and of course, the praise, \ntoo).\n\nIn response to Bernt's report, I uploaded a new Git installer which does \nnot have that problem (and this time I actually tested it again).\n\nCiao,\nDscho\n"},{"id":"113271","messageId":"87fxfgv9hw.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905072332540.18521@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","subject":"Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Bernt Hansen","fromEmail":"bernt@norang.ca","sentAt":"2009-05-07T22:22:35Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-07T22:22:35Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bernt@norang.ca","avatar":null},"body":"\nJohannes Schindelin writes:\n\n> Thank you very much!. It was a bug in my build process. Fixed, pushed \n> and uploaded as Git-1.6.3-preview20090507-2.exe! (The Portable Git is \n> unaffected of this bug.)\n\nThanks! This new version fixes the problem :)\n\n-Bernt\n"},{"id":"113949","messageId":"alpine.DEB.2.00.0905141920140.10118@ds9.cixit.se","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905071554070.16585@intel-tinevez-2-302","subject":"Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Peter Krefting","fromEmail":"peter@softwolves.pp.se","sentAt":"2009-05-14T18:23:00Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-14T18:23:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peter@softwolves.pp.se","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/990764?v=4"},"body":"Johannes Schindelin:\n\n> Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507)\n> Last update: 07 May 2009\n\nI installed the -2 version, but I am having problems pushing:\n\n > git pull\n git-upload-pack: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory\n fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly\n\nI used the install that puts git in the PATH, and am running it from CMD in \nthis case. Any ideas on what might be wrong?\n\n-- \n\\\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/\n"},{"id":"113951","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905142101450.27348@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.2.00.0905141920140.10118@ds9.cixit.se","subject":"Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-05-14T19:02:40Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-14T19:02:40Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"\nHi,\n\nOn Thu, 14 May 2009, Peter Krefting wrote:\n\n> Johannes Schindelin:\n> \n> > Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507)\n> > Last update: 07 May 2009\n> \n> I installed the -2 version, but I am having problems pushing:\n> \n> > git pull\n> git-upload-pack: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot\n> open shared object file: No such file or directory\n> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly\n> \n> I used the install that puts git in the PATH, and am running it from CMD in\n> this case. Any ideas on what might be wrong?\n\nFirst I scratched my head why Git for Windows would look for a .so instead \nof a .dll file.\n\nBut the puzzle is easy to solve: git-upload-pack is called on the remote \nside. So it is not Git for Windows having this issue.\n\nCiao,\nDscho\n"},{"id":"114115","messageId":"alpine.DEB.2.00.0905162017450.2954@ds9.cixit.se","threadId":"19236","inReplyTo":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0905142101450.27348@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","subject":"Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3","fromName":"Peter Krefting","fromEmail":"peter@softwolves.pp.se","sentAt":"2009-05-16T19:19:20Z","receivedAt":"2009-05-16T19:19:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peter@softwolves.pp.se","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/990764?v=4"},"body":"Johannes Schindelin:\n\n> But the puzzle is easy to solve: git-upload-pack is called on the remote \n> side. So it is not Git for Windows having this issue.\n\nYes, of course. I didn't think of that.\n\nNow to figure out what makes it different from when I do a pull from other \nGit installs over ssh from this repository and have it working.\n\nThanks for the pointer!\n\n-- \n\\\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/\n"}]}