From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:33:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 07 16:32:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MDJQA-0002CC-Lz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:32:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753370AbZFGOcR (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:32:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752645AbZFGOcQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:32:16 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39621 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752466AbZFGOcQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:32:16 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Jun 2009 14:32:17 -0000 Received: from pacific.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO pacific.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.10.38] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 07 Jun 2009 16:32:17 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+BghgExM6BDiYN9aNVeO9ro3OE9XBY+geyvds00w YeAqMelyAFOqC5 X-X-Sender: schindelin@pacific.mpi-cbg.de User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.47 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.