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Re: Git for Windows 1.6.2.2

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Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 8, 2009, 05:20 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin said the following on 08.04.2009 04:46:
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> Hi,
> 
> this email tries to inform you that the Windows installer was updated to 
> the newest version of Git.
> 
> Changes since Git-1.6.2.1-preview20090322
> 
> New Features
> 
> - Comes with official git 1.6.2.2.
> - Upgraded Tcl/Tk to 8.5.5.
> - TortoiseMerge is supported by mergetool now (Thanks Markus Heidelberg).
> - Uses pthreads (faster garbage collection on multi-core machines).
> - The test suite passes!
> 
> Bugfixes
> 
> - Renaming was made more robust (due to Explorer or some virus scanners, 
>   files could not be renamed at the first try, so we have to try multiple 
>   times).
> - Johannes Sixt made lots of changes to the test-suite to identify 
>   properly which tests should pass, and which ones cannot pass due to 
>   limitations of the platform.
> - Support PAGERs with spaces in their filename.
> - Quite a few changes were undone which we needed in the olden days of 
>   msysGit.
> - Fall back to / when HOME cannot be set to the real home directory due to 
>   locale issues (works around Issue 108 for the moment).
Excellent work guys! Thanks plenty!
Oh, and go to sleep! :-p

-- .marius

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