Hi, this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less well tested than the previous versions, mainly because I was busy with other things and asked for help with testing on the msysGit mailing list and I am very impatient. Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.4-preview20090729) Last update: 29 July 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. - 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 and accept the host key. - 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-1.6.3.2-preview20090608 New Features - Comes with official git 1.6.4. - Supports https:// URLs, thanks to Erik Faye-Lund. - Supports send-email, thanks to Erik Faye-Lund (Issue 27). - Updated Tcl/Tk to version 8.5.7, thanks to Pat Thoyts. Bugfixes - The home directory is now discovered properly (Issues 108 & 259). - IPv6 is supported now, thanks to Martin Martin Storsj (Issue 182). -- 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