Git for Windows 1.6.4

Hi,

this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less well tested than the previous versions, mainly because I was busy with other things and asked for help with testing on the msysGit mailing list and I am very impatient.

Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.4-preview20090729) Last update: 29 July 2009

Introduction These release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.

General release notes covering the history of the core git commands are included in the subdirectory doc/git/html of the installation directory. Look for files starting with RelNotes.

Known issues

- Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the 
  installation; namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git 
  cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git send-email, git shell.

- The Logitec QuickCam software can cause spurious crashes. See "Why does 
  make often crash creating a sh.exe.stackdump file when I try to compile 
  my source code?" on the MinGW Wiki 
  (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Environment_issues)

- The Quick Launch icon will only be installed for the user running setup 
  (typically the Administrator). This is a technical restriction and will 
  not change.

- Git Bash launched through the Explorer shell extension does not have the 
  git icon in its taskbar. This is a technical restriction and will not 
  change.

- curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc.

- If you want to specify a different location for --upload-pack, you have 
  to start the absolute path with two slashes. Otherwise MSys will mangle 
  the path.

- git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80, 
  159).

- If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first 
  and accept the host key.

- When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be 
  "swallowed" from Git's output (Issue 192).

- There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem 
  not to be reproducible on most computers.

- As merge tools are executed using the MSys bash, options starting with 
  "/" need to be handled specially: MSys would interpret that as a POSIX 
  path, so you need to double the slash (Issue 226).  Example: instead of 
  "/base", say "//base".  Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows 
  programs Windows paths, as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX 
  paths -- You can use something like $(cmd //c echo "$POSIXPATH").

Changes since Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090608

New Features

- Comes with official git 1.6.4.

- Supports https:// URLs, thanks to Erik Faye-Lund.

- Supports send-email, thanks to Erik Faye-Lund (Issue 27).

- Updated Tcl/Tk to version 8.5.7, thanks to Pat Thoyts.

Bugfixes

- The home directory is now discovered properly (Issues 108 & 259).
- IPv6 is supported now, thanks to Martin Martin Storsj (Issue 182).