Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 15, 2007, 05:30 UTC
Message-ID: <85fy2l1i1g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <30FE2B1C-B651-4F1D-B5D9-CD3C3261F531@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

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> Author: Johannes Schmidt-Ehrenberg <schmidt-ehrenberg@zib.de>
> Date:   Mon Aug 13 19:00:39 2007 +0200
>
>     mergetool: fixed parsing of registry entry for kdiff3
>
>     The old code failed on Windows Vista. The output of
>     reg.exe or something else may be a bit different.
>     This patch improves the parsing code to be more robust.

I seem to remember that you can't rely on reg.exe being available on Windows. The Microsoft support pages talk about using regedit.exe instead (which is quite more cumbersome).

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