ok, I upgraded some msys and mingw components, and took today's snapshot of mingw.git. I can now do many local tasks :) One problem I haven't found a solution for though: the date of commit is wrong, always back to epoch (1970???). See attached: $ git init-db Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ $ git add . $ git commit -a -m ok Created initial commit d52832ca5120626bfcc35360d7fd3914ccb6d11f 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 a $ git log commit d52832ca5120626bfcc35360d7fd3914ccb6d11f Author: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000 ok -- Christian - 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