Re: Git for Windows 1.6.3.2

From

Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) <ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl>

Date

Jun 8, 2009, 10:01 UTC

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<13638.77.61.241.211.1244455293.squirrel@hupie.xs4all.nl>

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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0906071629460.26154@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi,

I installed default: using git bash, unix line endings, ssh, etc

-- 
Ferry Huberts



On Sun, June 7, 2009 16:33, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 is out.  Soon is the
> time that we switch to git.git's master.
>
> Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090607)
> Last update: 07 June 2009
>
> Introduction
> These release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.
>
> General release notes covering the history of the core git commands are
> included in the subdirectory doc/git/html of the installation directory.
> Look for files starting with RelNotes.
>
> Known issues
> - Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the
>   installation; namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git
>   cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git send-email, git shell.
> - The Logitec QuickCam software can cause spurious crashes. See "Why does
>   make often crash creating a sh.exe.stackdump file when I try to compile
>   my source code?" on the MinGW Wiki
>   (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Environment_issues)
> - The Quick Launch icon will only be installed for the user running setup
>   (typically the Administrator). This is a technical restriction and will
>   not change.
> - Git Bash launched through the Explorer shell extension does not have the
>   git icon in its taskbar. This is a technical restriction and will not
>   change.
> - git send-mail does not work properly (Issue 27).
> - curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc.
> - If you want to specify a different location for --upload-pack, you have
>   to start the absolute path with two slashes. Otherwise MSys will mangle
>   the path.
> - git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80,
>   159).
> - If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first.
> - MinGW does not support IPv6 yet (Issue 182).
> - When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be
>   "swallowed" from Git's output (Issue 192).
> - There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem
>   not to be reproducible on most computers.
> - As merge tools are executed using the MSys bash, options starting with
>   "/" need to be handled specially: MSys would interpret that as a POSIX
>   path, so you need to double the slash (Issue 226).  Example: instead of
>   "/base", say "//base".
> - Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows programs Windows paths,
>   as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX paths -- You can use
>   something like $(cmd //c echo "$POSIXPATH").
>
> Changes since Git-1.6.3-preview20090507
>
> New Features
> - Comes with official git 1.6.3.2.
> - Uses TortoisePlink instead of Plink if available.
>
> Bugfixes
> - Plink errors out rather than hanging when the user needs to accept a
>   host key first (Issue 96).
> - The user home directory is inferred from $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH instead of
>   $HOME (Issue 108).
> - The environment setting $CYGWIN=tty is ignored (Issues 138, 248 and
>   251).
> - The "ls" command shows non-ASCII filenames correctly now (Issue 188).
> - Adds more syntax files for vi (Issue 250).
> - $HOME/.bashrc is included last from /etc/profile, allowing .bashrc to
>   override all settings in /etc/profile (Issue 255).
> - Completion is case-insensitive again (Issue 256).
> - The "start" command can handle arguments with spaces now (Issue 258).
> - For some Git commands (such as "git commit"), vi no longer "restores"
>   the cursor position.
>
>
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