From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:39:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Capital letters do not work when using vi as git editor
Message-ID: <1eccf3a5-cce2-2109-5e04-ed9f43105a57@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <000232C3.5EF496D0@mail.ifta.com>

On 25/06/2020 11:21, Daniel Dyk wrote:
> Hi git-devs,
>
>
> I installed git 2.27.0 on a fresh Windows 10 system, there where no old installations of mingw or git. Unfortunatly I have encountered a bug with vim when doing 'git rebase -i' or 'git commit':
>
> I am not able to type capital letters, so commands for selecting rows (<Shift>V), pasting above (<Shift>P) etc are not working. I am also not able to type 'ABCDE' in insertion mode. Small letters and capital umlauts (ÄÖÜ) work. If I open the vi without git, I can type the capital letters. If I use nano as editor, I can type capital letters as well. 
>
> Downgrading to git 2.24.1.2 solved the problem for now (I double checked and reinstalled 2.27.0 again => same issue).
>
If I remember correctly this occurred because of changes to the terminal
support used. It's been reported on the Git-for-Windows Issues [1] list
and a fresh snapshot [2] created that resolves the problem .

Philip

[1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2689
[2] https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html