From: Janos Laube <janos.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:11:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] Git for Windows 1.6.2.2
Message-ID: <9d6091530904080311s7f8f893exd504202f77214c31@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904080440170.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

>
> 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).
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho "who really needs some sleep"

thank you very much! awesome work :-)