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).

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

I'm still too busy, but since I saw your email arriving live and I've Vista here, I kept some minutes for you :)

bad news: here the installation complains around the end (all default answers)

"Could not set CR/LF behavior: core.autoCRLF true"

Using git gui works, calling gitk from it works. But git bash initiates a shell complaining:

==================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------- Building and Installing Git ------------------------------------------------------- sh.exe": cd: /git: No such file or directory

------------------------- Hello, dear Git developer.

This is a minimal MSYS environment to work on Git.

Your build failed...  Please fix it, and give feedback on the Git list.

Welcome to Git (version 1.6.4-preview20090729)

Run 'git help git' to display the help index. Run 'git help <command>' to display help for specific commands. Run '/share/Git (version 1.6.4-preview20090729)/add-shortcut.tcl' to add a short cut to msysGit. ====================================================================

Apparently, git binaries are not in the path. I'll check on a winXP and win2003 environments asap.

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:

Uh oh.

Ah, you are not installing Git for Windows, but msysGit.

Now the question is if full or net.

I will not guess, especially since I am dead tired after that hour it always takes to make a new release.

Pff.

I think it is the lack of libcrypto.dll and libssl.dll. And now I know you used the net installer.

As I said, would have been nice to be precise.

Ciao, Dscho

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

I'm installing http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.6.4-preview20090729.exe: I should have been more accurate. But each time I reported on this package, it was on the preview.

I believe it's preview, not full, not net. My download size is 11.3MB and the md5sum is 16F1AB9CBFB75553DC19C3B17BB96C57

I believe we're both on CET :)

no, I did not use the net install, nor the full install. I can see from the wiki the net installer is a 1.8MB download.

??? libcrypto and libssl *are* in the package preview...

It's actually quite funny, but I guess I've seen it all on Windows: all the binaries are here with their libraries until the setup complains about core.autoCRLF. After this stage, git.exe gets deleted... And it's not a virus triggering this (I checked).

I managed to quickly copy it before it got erased, and manually added it back after the setup completes. It works.

I'll not try the full install; at least from my point of view, it's a regression on the *preview* package, which I'm using on a daily basis.

let me know if it's not yet clear enough: I'm tired too, almost 1am :)

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:

I guess I am really too tired, as I thought that I had tested, but obviously only tested the https-and-send-email installer.

But in the meantime, I found the issue, fixed and re-uploaded it. FWIW the portable application was not affected, and funnily enough, the net installer works (although I wonder why).

Thanks for your report and help in diagnosing the problem.

Ciao, Dscho

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.6.4-preview20090730.exe works on Vista and winXP. I will test on win2003 later, but I guess it should be ok.

no pb

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Christian MICHON<christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:

I confirm I see the same problems on Vista and Windows 2003 (it was a fresh install of the OS).

I see you're replying now. I'll move my answers to next email.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

<snip>

Forgot to update the list of unsupported commands?

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

Thanks, fixed.

Ciao, Dscho

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729,

Heya,

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 17:03, Erik Faye-Lund<kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:

Good for you, care to be a tad more verbose?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729, due to lack of libcrypto.dll during installation. The command promt says:

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Erik Faye-Lund<kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:

OK, this new netbook is neat, apart from the tiny keyboard ;)

I'll try again - sorry for the noise.

I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729, due to lack of libcrypto.dll during installation. The command promt says: ------------------------------------------------------- Checking environment ------------------------------------------------------- Environment is clean. Can install msysgit.

------------------------------------------------------- Fetching the latest MSys environment -------------------------------------------------------

...after that I'm getting a messagebox saying that git.exe failed to find libcrypto.dll.

Checking in c:\msysgit\bin I find most needed stuff, but not libcrypto.dll (or libssl.dll, which I suspect would have caused similar issues if it wasn't for the lacking libcrypto.dll)

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Erik Faye-Lund<kusmabite@googlemail.com> wrote:

Uhm, that should have been c:\msysgit\installer-tmp\bin...

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

Just to be sure, I tried the same, but it worked here! Of course, that was due to me making a new net installer...

Oh well, please find a new net installer (that I briefly tested, actually).

Hopefully by now everybody understands that Git for Windows is Beta for a reason.

Ciao, Dscho

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

Works beautifully! Thanks a lot!

My compliments on the latest installer. I believe you forgot to mention one very nice improvement: the installer seems smart enough to read my previous installation settings, for instance the location of my plink.exe. Nice touch! Also I am pleased that the PS1 environment variable has been restored to what I felt was a useful setting. There's now a newline before the "$", which improves the shell usage in many ways.

Just my $.02 worth. (I wish my thoughts were worth €.02, but I live in the dollar zone.)

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Johannes Schindelin < Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

I installed it using the normal installer under WinXP, and am not seeing problems.

I have core.autocrlf=input

that was a fast release :-) thanks!

Ferry