From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:59:37 GMT
Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD
Message-ID: <86d4xp471i.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <ABA1D7D2-92A6-4E8C-AC36-93912621E3D4@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>>
>>> 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).
>
> I successfully ran it on at least Windows XP and Vista. On Vista,
> it was present on a quite fresh system (Visual Studio not yet
> installed). So I'm quite confident that it's likely to be there.
>
> Do you have a reference? I searched msdn and was not able to
> immediately find the recommendation you're referring to.

<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/Windows2000serv/support/FAQW2KCP.mspx>

    Q.	What other tools are available for using the registry in batch?
    A.	

    If you install the Support Tools from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM, you
    can use REG.EXE to Add, Delete, Copy, Compare, Export, Import,
    Load a Hive, Query, Save, Restore, and Unload a Hive. To install
    the Support Tools:

    1.


    Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

    2.


    Click Browse this CD, and then open the Support\Tools folder.

    3.


    Double-click Setup.exe, and follow the on-screen instructions.


That does not sound like one could rely on its presence out of the
box, at least on Windows 2000.

-- 
David Kastrup