[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.12.2

[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.12.2

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

It is my pleasure to announce that Git for Windows 2.12.2 is available from:

	https://git-for-windows.github.io/

Changes since Git for Windows v2.12.1 (March 21st 2017)

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.12.2.
  * An earlier iteration of the changes speeding up the
    case-insensitive cache of file names was replaced by a new
    iteration.

Filename | SHA-256
-------- | -------
Git-2.12.2-64-bit.exe | 99492acd85bad097b5952ccfd5cb37658bf3301f5d8256f345dd10937ab07899
Git-2.12.2-32-bit.exe | f99a9c398ee352982477be39e723df3357c71f13f0697ec580cfee55419e5880
PortableGit-2.12.2-64-bit.7z.exe | 6a366a5b5702d24b401aba6b022d502b5f6597e00654075e491319878ba0a535
PortableGit-2.12.2-32-bit.7z.exe | 52c236fead982c31733e43fb7361a4982b2d1c0a54a011f68b074ec7f64436c3
MinGit-2.12.2-64-bit.zip | fcebf3ef4f7fe2bc852879eb77d2bd63af49bd274aa4c4d61c7b4a1fa76b830f
MinGit-2.12.2-32-bit.zip | 494e4fb629f8b05bc067e27aea86c45af2322a34730d5ff16609bed199e5954c
Git-2.12.2-64-bit.tar.bz2 | d91d2d6a6da99ceafc9b0749e619fa1db3387fe20dc0c9ad8e8c51e4a5cd9f37
Git-2.12.2-32-bit.tar.bz2 | e048e0082f07dbb7fed1107f78d0515c4d58916154f9c8f9591b482f52c25301

Ciao,
Johannes

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.12.2

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Andrew Witte wrote:

> The git 2.12 GCM for Windows is broken. I tried doing a git clone and
> got "*remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied*".
> I downgraded to git 2.11.0 and everything worked fine.

Could you test v2.12.1, too, and open a bug report at:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/new ?

I am particularly interested in any details you can share that would help
other developers like me to reproduce the issue.

Thank you,
Johannes

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.12.2

[Mike Rappazzo]

Forwarding to the lists, as my original message was rejected for html.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Witte <zezba9000@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just updated back to git 2.12.2 and git-lfs 2.0.2 and everything worked
> fine. Wish I could have gotten more info when it happened as its happened on
> a different computer as well. Will keep an eye out.
>
> Also another note that I really don't like with Windows for Git since 2.12
> is that It packages git-lfs with it. When I use the cmd it overrides the
> other git-lfs install I have. I have to manually go and remove the old
> git-lfs file in "program files" for things to work correctly.
>
> On top of this git-lfs needs to be registered in the environment vars
> because this is what the main git-lfs install does and apps Iv'e made like
> Git-It-GUI (https://github.com/reignstudios/Git-It-GUI) invoke git-lfs
> directly for some stuff. Because of this issue, the app will think a newer
> version is installed thats different from what the normal git cmd reports.
> Also doing git clone outside of the windows cmd with only git for windows
> installed doesn't invoke git-lfs correctly as its not registered in the
> system environment vars.  In short I don't think it should be shipped with
> the installer as it just creates confusion.
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that this is a problem in the windows credential manager.  I
>> tried this on:
>>   - git 2.12.2.windows.1 => failure
>>   - git 2.12.1.windows.1 => success
>>
>> More Details:
>> I have a perl script which uses (a copy of Git.pm) to invoke the
>> credential manager.  While debugging that script, I dumped the hash that I
>> read from the credential manager:
>>
>>     $git->credential($cred, 'fill');
>>     print Data::Dumper->Dump( [ $cred ] , [ "cred" ] );
>>
>> In 2.12.2, this produces output like this:
>>
>>     $cred = {
>>       'path' => '',
>>       'protocol' => 'https',
>>       'username' => '',
>>       'host' => 'some.host.com',
>>       'password' => ''
>>     };
>>
>> In 2.12.1, this produces output like this:
>>
>>     $cred = {
>>       'path' => '',
>>       'host' => 'some.host.com',
>>       'protocol' => 'https',
>>       'password' => 'my.password',
>>       'username' => 'mrappazzo'
>>     };
>>
>> While debugging this, I did something to get it to work on 2.12.2.  After
>> downgrading to 2.12.1, I manually removed the credentials from Credential
>> Manager (in Control Panel).  After successful authentication, they were back
>> in the credential manager.  I then upgraded to 2.12.2, and I was able to
>> successfully authenticate.
>>
>> To try to recreate the problem scenario again (in 2.12.2), I cleared the
>> credentials in Credential Manager.  Reattempting to authenticate gave the
>> credentials prompt.  The output of the perl hash was missing the password
>> again (thus, reproducing the error condition).
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>> _Mike
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 10:06:03 PM UTC-4, Andrew Witte wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll try to get more info tomorrow.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 2:59:10 PM UTC-7, Johannes Schindelin
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Andrew Witte wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > The git 2.12 GCM for Windows is broken. I tried doing a git clone and
>>>> > got "*remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied*".
>>>> > I downgraded to git 2.11.0 and everything worked fine.
>>>>
>>>> Could you test v2.12.1, too, and open a bug report at:
>>>> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/new ?
>>>>
>>>> I am particularly interested in any details you can share that would
>>>> help
>>>> other developers like me to reproduce the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Johannes
>
>