ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309

Git Release Notes (Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309) Last update: 9 March 2010

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 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.

- 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-1.6.5.1-preview20091022

New Features

- Comes with official Git 1.7.0.2.

- Comes with Git-Cheetah (on 32-bit Windows only, for now).

- Comes with connect.exe, a SOCKS proxy.

- Tons of improvements in the installer, thanks to Sebastian Schuberth.

- On Vista, if possible, symlinks are used for the built-ins.

- Features Hany's dos2unix tool, thanks to Sebastian Schuberth.

- Updated Tcl/Tk to version 8.5.8 (thanks Pat Thoyts!).

- By default, only .git/ is hidden, to work around a bug in Eclipse 
  (thanks to Erik Faye-Lund).

Bugfixes

- Fixed threaded grep (thanks to Heiko Voigt).

- git gui was fixed for all kinds of worktree-related failures (thanks Pat 
  Thoyts).

- git gui now fully supports themed widgets (thanks Pat Thoyts and Heiko 
  Voigt).

- Git no longer complains about an unset RUNTIME_PREFIX (thanks Johannes 
  Sixt).

- git gui can Explore Working Copy on Windows again (thanks Markus 
  Heidelberg).

- git gui can create shortcuts again (fixes issue 425, thanks Heiko 
  Voigt).

- When "git checkout" cannot overwrite files because they are in use, it 
  will offer to try again, giving the user a chance to release the file 
  (thanks Heiko Voigt).

- Ctrl+W will close gitk (thanks Jens Lehmann).

- git gui no longer binds Ctrl+C, which caused problems when trying to use 
  said shortcut for the clipboard operation "Copy" (fixes issue 423, 
  thanks Pat Thoyts).

- gitk does not give up when the command line length limit is reached 
  (issue 387).

- The exit code is fixed when Git.cmd is called from cmd.exe (thanks 
  Alexey Borzenkov).

- When launched via the (non-Cheetah) shell extension, the window icon is 
  now correct (thanks Sebastian Schuberth).

- Uses a TrueType font for the console, to be able to render UTF-8 
  correctly.

- Clarified the installer's line ending options (issue 370).

- Substantially speeded up startup time from cmd unless NO_FSTAB_THREAD is 
  set (thanks Johannes Sixt).

- Update msys-1.0.dll yet again, to handle quoted parameters better 
  (thanks Heiko Voigt).

- Updated cURL to a version that supports SSPI.

- Updated tar to handle the pax headers generated by git archive.

- Updated sed to a version that can handle the filter-branch examples.

- .git* files can be associated with the default text editor (issue 397).