Re: Git for Windows 1.6.2-preview20090308

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 8, 2009, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903081253510.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200903081413.28354.angavrilov@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Alexander Gavrilov wrote:

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> On Sunday 08 March 2009 04:10:21 Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I just released a new version of Git for Windows (TAFKA WinGit).  It is 
> > basically Git 1.6.2 plus a few patches.  Please find the installer here:
> > 
> > 	http://msysgit.googlecode.com/
> > 
> > Disclaimer: Git for Windows is still in a state where I do _not_ recommend 
> > using it unless you have the means to fix issues.  Unlike git.git 
> > developer community, the msysGit team is heavily undermanned.
> > 
> > Known issues
> 
> I've just noticed that the following git-gui fixes haven't been merged in 1.6.2:
> 
>   git-gui: Support more git version notations.
>   git-gui: Avoid an infinite rescan loop in handle_empty_diff.
>   git-gui: Fix post-commit status with subject in non-locale encoding
> 
> The second one is a fix for a rather important problem reported on the msysgit list.
> The last one is msysgit bug #181.

Thanks for keeping an eye on things. Would you agree that we can wait a few days, maybe this whole week, to collect issues like these, and then release another installer with the issues fixed?

Ciao, Dscho