From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:43:15 GMT
Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD
Message-ID: <ABA1D7D2-92A6-4E8C-AC36-93912621E3D4@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <85fy2l1i1g.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>


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.

	Steffen