Re: Please test Git for Windows' latest snapshot

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 19, 2018, 12:27 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1802191326350.31@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <CAGyf7-GK+HgYx0AjRQXPhbxNTaohN1K2NFf3eWPjLsxHC6CvtQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bryan,

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Bryan Turner wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi team,
> >
> > I am unwilling to release Git for Windows v2.16.2 on a Friday night, but I
> > have something almost as good. There is a snapshot available here:
> >
> >         https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wingit.blob.core.windows.net_files_index.html&d=DwIBAg&c=wBUwXtM9sKhff6UeHOQgvw&r=uBedA6EFFVX1HiLgmpdrBrv8bIDAScKjk1yk9LOASBM&m=xZghHWteeNbJ2bu5ySDq9WwqnfX8X7FZ_CWsV9gAyJU&s=NzSYCFSWWokPP9A9FA_EmJO5yu8qtRKw5M-Ep_qooUc&e=
> >
> > That snapshot brings quite a few updated components apart from Git proper
> > (such as an updated MSYS2 runtime), and I would love to ask y'all to give
> > this snapshot a proper "tire kicking".
> 
> I've run Bitbucket Server's full Git test suite (~1,500 tests) against
> the Portable Git snapshot (e1848984d1), no failures to report.

Thank you as always!

Sadly, another user found out that `git svn` is completely broken in the 32-bit versions, and that's what I am trying to figure out right now. Not a problem in Git itself, of course, but in the way the Subversion Perl bindings were built.

Ciao, Dscho