Git Release Notes (Git-1.7.2.3-preview20100911) Last update: 11 September 2010 Find it at http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list 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 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. - 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. - 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-1.7.1-preview20100612 New Features - Comes with Git 1.7.2.3 plus patches. Bugfixes - Issue 519 (build problem with compat/regex/regexec.c) was fixed - Issue 430 (size of panes not preserved in git-gui) was fixed - Issue 411 (git init failing to work with CIFS paths) was fixed - Issue 501 (failing to clone repo from root dir using relative path) was fixed Changes since Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309 New Features - Comes with Git 1.7.1 plus patches. Bugfixes - Issue 27 (git-send-mail not working properly) was fixed again - Issue 433 (error while running git svn fetch) was fixed - Issue 427 (Gitk reports error: "couldn't compile regular expression pattern: invalid repetition count(s)") was fixed - Issue 192 (output truncated) was fixed again - Issue 365 (Out of memory? mmap failed) was fixed - Issue 387 (gitk reports "error: couldn't execute "git:" file name too long") was fixed - Issue 409 (checkout of large files to network drive fails on XP) was fixed - Issue 428 (The return value of git.cmd is not the same as git.exe) was fixed - Issue 444 (Git Bash Here returns a "File not found error" in Windows 7 Professional - 64 bits) was fixed - Issue 445 (git help does nothing) was fixed - Issue 450 ("git --bare init" shouldn't set the directory to hidden.) was fixed - Issue 456 (git script fails with error code 1) was fixed - Issue 469 (error launch wordpad in last netinstall) was fixed - Issue 474 (git update-index --index-info silently does nothing) was fixed - Issue 482 (Add documentation to avoid "fatal: $HOME not set" error) was fixed - Issue 489 (git.cmd issues warning if %COMSPEC% has spaces in it) was fixed - Issue 436 ("mkdir : No such file or directory" error while using git-svn to fetch or rebase) was fixed - Issue 440 (Uninstall does not remove cheetah.) was fixed - Issue 441 (Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309.exe installer fails with unwritable msys-1.0.dll when ssh-agent is running) was fixed -- 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