Johannes SchindelinHi,
this mail tries to inform you that a new version of Git for Windows has been released. Overall, the differences to Git 1.6.3 have been reduced dramatically, thanks to the immense efforts of Johannes Sixt on the test suite.
There are two major modifications relative to git.git, though: Marius Storm-Olsen's readdir() and nedmalloc patches. They are rather large, but well-contained changes, and we tested extensively in the last few weeks.
One consequence is that the test-suite no longer takes 45 minutes on the machine I test on, but less than 20 minutes.
And now, without further ado, the release notes:
Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507) Last update: 07 May 2009
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. - git send-mail does not work properly (Issue 27). - 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, 108, 159, 188). - If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first, as you cannot accept the host key due to the console window being blocked (Issue 96). - MinGW does not support IPv6 yet (Issue 182). - 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-1.6.2.2-preview20090408
New Features
- Comes with official git 1.6.3. - Thanks to Marius Storm-Olsen, Git has a substantially faster readdir() implementation now. - Marius Storm-Olsen also contributed a patch to include nedmalloc, again speeding up Git noticably. - Compiled with GCC 4.4.0
Bugfixes
- Portable Git contains a README.portable. - Portable Git now actually includes the builtins. - Portable Git includes git-cmd.bat and git-bash.bat. - Portable Git is now shipped as a .7z; it still is a self-extracting archive if you rename it to .exe. - Git includes the Perl Encode module now. - Git now includes the filter-branch tool. - There is a workaround for a Windows 7 regression triggering a crash in the progress reporting (e.g. during a clone). This fixes issues 236 and 247. - gitk tries not to crash when it is closed while reading references (Issue 125, thanks Pat Thoyts). - In some setups, hard-linking is not as reliable as it should be, so we have a workaround which avoids hard links in some situations (Issues 222 and 229). - git-svn sets core.autocrlf to false now, hopefully shutting up most of the git-svn reports.
Ciao, Dscho (on behalf of the msysGit team)
