From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)" Subject: Re: Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:01:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <13638.77.61.241.211.1244455293.squirrel@hupie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 08 12:01:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MDbfy-0004O1-48 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:01:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753578AbZFHKBf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 06:01:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753174AbZFHKBe (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 06:01:34 -0400 Received: from hupie.xs4all.nl ([82.95.241.251]:56393 "EHLO Lighthouse.internal.Hupie.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752712AbZFHKBd (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 06:01:33 -0400 Received: by Lighthouse.internal.Hupie.com (Postfix, from userid 48) id 6434658BDD4; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:01:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 77.61.241.211 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl) by hupie.xs4all.nl with HTTP; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:01:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.3 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I just installed it and it seems that ~ now points to /c ... which is odd and break stuff. Is this expected or a bug? Or am I doing something wrong? I installed default: using git bash, unix line endings, ssh, etc -- Ferry Huberts On Sun, June 7, 2009 16:33, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 is out. Soon is the > time that we switch to git.git's master. > > Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090607) > Last update: 07 June 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. > - 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, > 159). > - If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first. > - 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-1.6.3-preview20090507 > > New Features > - Comes with official git 1.6.3.2. > - Uses TortoisePlink instead of Plink if available. > > Bugfixes > - Plink errors out rather than hanging when the user needs to accept a > host key first (Issue 96). > - The user home directory is inferred from $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH instead of > $HOME (Issue 108). > - The environment setting $CYGWIN=tty is ignored (Issues 138, 248 and > 251). > - The "ls" command shows non-ASCII filenames correctly now (Issue 188). > - Adds more syntax files for vi (Issue 250). > - $HOME/.bashrc is included last from /etc/profile, allowing .bashrc to > override all settings in /etc/profile (Issue 255). > - Completion is case-insensitive again (Issue 256). > - The "start" command can handle arguments with spaces now (Issue 258). > - For some Git commands (such as "git commit"), vi no longer "restores" > the cursor position. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >