Re: ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 10, 2010, 01:30 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1003100222190.7596@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1003091648q103ffa9co805233b57ddb3cc0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 19:24, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > - Comes with Git-Cheetah (on 32-bit Windows only, for now).
> 
> Oooh, cool! I gotta try this out at my university and see if it works,
> if it does we can tell the sysadmis to remove TortoiseGit and install
> Git-Cheetah instead :D.

:-)

There is a lot of opportunity to improve this (and there is a lot of opportunity for me to review patches, there are still some I have to look at closely).

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> > - git gui now fully supports themed widgets (thanks Pat Thoyts and 
> >   Heiko  Voigt).
> 
> I remember from reading a thread about this (I think) a while ago that 
> the default themed widget was the usual tcl/tk stuff, what do I have to 
> do to get a different theme? Perhaps even, dare I say it, a native 
> windows look?

Good news: you do not need to do anything, gitk and git gui should now look like native applications out of the box.

> > - Substantially speeded up startup time from cmd unless 
> >   NO_FSTAB_THREAD is  set (thanks Johannes Sixt).
> 
> Sweet, any numbers?

Yes: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/7986

Basically, if you are not running Git from Git Bash, but from cmd.exe, every single call to MSys programs (such as sh.exe, perl.exe, sed.exe, etc) will take 100ms extra.

> Also, why would I need to set NO_FSTAB_THREAD?

When you want to access a USB stick that you plugged in after starting Git Bash.

> Thank you for all the hard work Dscho, keep it up!

Feedback like this is always very much appreciated! :-)

> Thank you to the people working on msysgit as well, it looks like the 
> day is coming fast that I can say "Git on windows? It Just Works (TM)"
> :).

Oh, I would not be too sure about that...

Ciao, Dscho