{"thread":{"id":"21334","subject":"Git 1.6.5.1 for Windows","startedAt":"2009-10-22T23:29:17Z","lastAt":"2009-10-22T23:29:17Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"125757","messageId":"alpine.DEB.1.00.0910230117160.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de","threadId":"21334","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git 1.6.5.1 for Windows","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2009-10-22T23:29:17Z","receivedAt":"2009-10-22T23:29:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.5.1-preview20091022)\nLast update: 22 October 2009\n\nFind it at http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list\n\nThese release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.\n\nGeneral release notes covering the history of the core git commands are\nincluded in the subdirectory doc/git/html of the installation directory.\nLook for files starting with RelNotes.\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 cvsimport,\n  git cvsserver, git instaweb, git shell.\n\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 my\n  source code?\" on the MinGW Wiki\n  (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Environment_issues)\n\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\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\n- curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc.\n\n- If you want to specify a different location for --upload-pack, you have to\n  start the absolute path with two slashes. Otherwise MSys will mangle the\n  path.\n\n- git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80,\n  159).\n\n- If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first and\n  accept the host key.\n\n- When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be\n  \"swallowed\" from Git's output (Issue 192).\n\n- There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem not\n  to be reproducible on most computers.\n\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 path,\n  so you need to double the slash (Issue 226).  Example: instead of \"/base\",\n  say \"//base\".  Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows programs\n  Windows paths, as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX paths -- You can\n  use something like $(cmd //c echo \"$POSIXPATH\").\n\n\nChanges since Git-1.6.4-preview20090729\n\nNew Features\n\n- Comes with official git 1.6.5.1.\n\n- Thanks to Johan 't Hart, files and directories starting with a single dot\n  (such as '.git') will now be marked hidden (you can disable this setting\n  with core.hideDotFiles=false in your config) (Issue 288).\n\n- Thanks to Thorvald Natvig, Git on Windows can simulate symbolic links by\n  using reparse points when available.  For technical reasons, this only\n  works for symbolic links pointing to files, not directories.\n\n- A lot of work has been put into making it possible to compile Git's source\n  code (the part written in C, of course, not the scripts) with Microsoft\n  Visual Studio.  This work is ongoing.\n\n- Thanks to Sebastian Schuberth, we only offer the (Tortoise)Plink option in\n  the installer if the presence of Plink was detected and at least one Putty\n  session was found (Issue 319).\n\n- Thanks to Sebastian Schuberth, the installer has a nicer icon now.\n\n\nBugfixes\n\n- Thanks to Sebastian Schuberth, git svn picks up the SSH setting specified\n  with the installer (Issue 305).\n"}]}