Hi, On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 19:24, Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > - Comes with Git-Cheetah (on 32-bit Windows only, for now). > > Oooh, cool! I gotta try this out at my university and see if it works, > if it does we can tell the sysadmis to remove TortoiseGit and install > Git-Cheetah instead :D. :-) There is a lot of opportunity to improve this (and there is a lot of opportunity for me to review patches, there are still some I have to look at closely). > > - git gui now fully supports themed widgets (thanks Pat Thoyts and > > Heiko Voigt). > > I remember from reading a thread about this (I think) a while ago that > the default themed widget was the usual tcl/tk stuff, what do I have to > do to get a different theme? Perhaps even, dare I say it, a native > windows look? Good news: you do not need to do anything, gitk and git gui should now look like native applications out of the box. > > - Substantially speeded up startup time from cmd unless > > NO_FSTAB_THREAD is set (thanks Johannes Sixt). > > Sweet, any numbers? Yes: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/7986 Basically, if you are not running Git from Git Bash, but from cmd.exe, every single call to MSys programs (such as sh.exe, perl.exe, sed.exe, etc) will take 100ms extra. > Also, why would I need to set NO_FSTAB_THREAD? When you want to access a USB stick that you plugged in after starting Git Bash. > Thank you for all the hard work Dscho, keep it up! Feedback like this is always very much appreciated! :-) > Thank you to the people working on msysgit as well, it looks like the > day is coming fast that I can say "Git on windows? It Just Works (TM)" > :). Oh, I would not be too sure about that... Ciao, Dscho