Re: Git for Windows 1.6.3.2

[Lee Henson <lee.m.henson@gmail.com>]

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Many thanks, Johannes.

2009/6/7 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

>
> 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.
>
>
>

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