From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:59:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d4xp471i.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ABA1D7D2-92A6-4E8C-AC36-93912621E3D4@zib.de> (Steffen Prohaska's message of "Wed\, 15 Aug 2007 07\:43\:15 +0200")
Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>>
>>> Author: Johannes Schmidt-Ehrenberg <schmidt-ehrenberg@zib.de>
>>> Date: Mon Aug 13 19:00:39 2007 +0200
>>>
>>> mergetool: fixed parsing of registry entry for kdiff3
>>>
>>> The old code failed on Windows Vista. The output of
>>> reg.exe or something else may be a bit different.
>>> This patch improves the parsing code to be more robust.
>>
>> I seem to remember that you can't rely on reg.exe being available on
>> Windows. The Microsoft support pages talk about using regedit.exe
>> instead (which is quite more cumbersome).
>
> I successfully ran it on at least Windows XP and Vista. On Vista,
> it was present on a quite fresh system (Visual Studio not yet
> installed). So I'm quite confident that it's likely to be there.
>
> Do you have a reference? I searched msdn and was not able to
> immediately find the recommendation you're referring to.
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/Windows2000serv/support/FAQW2KCP.mspx>
Q. What other tools are available for using the registry in batch?
A.
If you install the Support Tools from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM, you
can use REG.EXE to Add, Delete, Copy, Compare, Export, Import,
Load a Hive, Query, Save, Restore, and Unload a Hive. To install
the Support Tools:
1.
Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
2.
Click Browse this CD, and then open the Support\Tools folder.
3.
Double-click Setup.exe, and follow the on-screen instructions.
That does not sound like one could rely on its presence out of the
box, at least on Windows 2000.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-07 9:02 git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 11:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-07 12:13 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 13:18 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 14:36 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-07 14:58 ` Brian Downing
2007-08-07 15:27 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-07 17:11 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 17:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-07 19:41 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 3:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 22:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:49 ` [PATCH] cygwin: added fopen "b" and open O_BINARY to support cygwin's textmode Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:49 ` [PATCH] tests: added d2u to have unix style testfiles even in textmode Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-08 5:00 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 23:20 ` git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 4:25 ` Brian Downing
2007-08-08 5:46 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-07 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 7:55 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2007-08-08 13:50 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-08 15:51 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 16:41 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-08 17:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 19:37 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 20:13 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 20:36 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 23:07 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-09 4:59 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-09 6:01 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 6:38 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-09 6:47 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 8:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-09 9:00 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-09 10:33 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-08 21:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-09 6:20 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 6:07 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-10 7:19 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 10:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-10 11:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 22:31 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-11 0:43 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-13 10:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-15 0:04 ` Torgil Svensson
2007-08-15 5:22 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-15 5:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-15 5:43 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-15 6:59 ` David Kastrup [this message]
[not found] ` <86k5rx474o.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2007-08-15 7:38 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-15 12:42 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-15 12:48 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-15 13:06 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-16 0:27 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-16 6:04 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-16 11:55 ` Mark Levedahl
2007-08-07 15:29 ` Mark Levedahl
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