On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > this mail tries to inform you that a new version of Git for Windows has > been released. Overall, the differences to Git 1.6.3 have been reduced > dramatically, thanks to the immense efforts of Johannes Sixt on the test > suite. > > There are two major modifications relative to git.git, though: Marius > Storm-Olsen's readdir() and nedmalloc patches. They are rather large, but > well-contained changes, and we tested extensively in the last few weeks. > > One consequence is that the test-suite no longer takes 45 minutes on the > machine I test on, but less than 20 minutes. > > And now, without further ado, the release notes: > > Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507) > Last update: 07 May 2009 > > 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, > 108, 159, 188). > - If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first, > as you cannot accept the host key due to the console window being > blocked (Issue 96). > - 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-1.6.2.2-preview20090408 > > New Features > > - Comes with official git 1.6.3. > - Thanks to Marius Storm-Olsen, Git has a substantially faster readdir() > implementation now. > - Marius Storm-Olsen also contributed a patch to include nedmalloc, again > speeding up Git noticably. > - Compiled with GCC 4.4.0 > > Bugfixes > > - Portable Git contains a README.portable. > - Portable Git now actually includes the builtins. > - Portable Git includes git-cmd.bat and git-bash.bat. > - Portable Git is now shipped as a .7z; it still is a self-extracting > archive if you rename it to .exe. > - Git includes the Perl Encode module now. > - Git now includes the filter-branch tool. > - There is a workaround for a Windows 7 regression triggering a crash in > the progress reporting (e.g. during a clone). This fixes issues 236 and > 247. > - gitk tries not to crash when it is closed while reading references > (Issue 125, thanks Pat Thoyts). > - In some setups, hard-linking is not as reliable as it should be, so we > have a workaround which avoids hard links in some situations (Issues 222 > and 229). > - git-svn sets core.autocrlf to false now, hopefully shutting up most of > the git-svn reports. > > Ciao, > Dscho (on behalf of the msysGit team) > > 1st: thanks to all participants for making this possible. 2nd: on my vista system (family premium sp1, French edition), I get a git setup window towards the end of setup saying Line 620: Unable to read file "etc\fileList-builtins.txt" Beyond this setup hickup, all seems to be in order and working locally (I have not tried pushing stuff yet). -- Christian -- http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside ! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html