Re: [msysGit] ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2010, 06:58 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db661003092258t22f2ee5ga720f18a859db957@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1003091921140.18499@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Git Release Notes (Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309)
> Last update: 9 March 2010
>

thanks to all contributors for the hard work!

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> 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 shell.

for instaweb, I will post soon an "how to use mongoose" instead of Apache. I managed to make it work, so we could propose it in the installer. What I need to workout is the path with spaces "program files" which I believe is the only hickup...

> - Substantially speeded up startup time from cmd unless NO_FSTAB_THREAD is
>  set (thanks Johannes Sixt).

this is a really fast bash now. I'll try it again with a corporate machine with many network disks mounted. Nice!

> - .git* files can be associated with the default text editor (issue 397).
>

I was first mislead by this feature. I thought I could also edit .git/* like config and all...

This one feels weird here on Vista: .gitignore or .gitattributes end up having no name visible at all on Explorer file view. I can only see their real names once I fire the editor, on the title bar of the editor. Is this expected ?

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Christian
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