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.