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

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Aug 13, 2007, 10:50 UTC

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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0708130122200.7037@racer.site>

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<EF7DFA5A-9C3A-4D0B-9533-D1D60AE4A44C@zib.de>

Hi,

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> I'm impressed. Pretty much everything I tried today worked for me. After 
> I got git gui running, and learned how to avoid pitfalls of git 
> submodule, development went smoothly.

Thanks!

> I could also think of a fail safe update, that allows to upgrade an 
> existing msysgit to a specific tag (maybe after stashing the current 
> installation and reverting in case of problems).

It's pretty early to think about stable releases, let alone upgrades ;-)

> Maybe git gui could be integrated with the Windows Explorer and be 
> launched on a directory. Maybe this is one of your evil plans. But this 
> is already more than I need.

That is already in the works.  An alpha version is already working.

> What do you think is needed to merge changes back to git.git? I counted 
> approximately 20k diff lines (incl. context) between msysgit's git 
> master and git.git's master. At a first glance much of them seem to be 
> compatibility stuff.

It is _all_ compatibility stuff.

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