Git for Windows 1.6.3.2

[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.