From: "Zachary Turner" <zturner@xxxxxxxxxx>
I dug into this some more, and as surprising as it is, I believe the
release of Git 2.8.0 is just busted. I had an installer for 2.7.0
lying around, so after uninstalling 2.8.0 and re-installing 2.7.0,
everything works fine.
I'm not terribly active in the Git community so I don't know what the
procedure is for things like this, but this seems like a fairly
serious regression. Suggestions on how to proceed?
see https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/711#issuecomment-204003950
"Indeed, the culprit is git-for-windows/msys2-runtime@7346568 and reverting
it fixes the issue. Will continue tomorrow." @dscho
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi, just recently I installed the latest build of Windows 10 of my
machine. This is my second Win10 machine. On the other I am using git
2.7.0.windows.1 and everything is working just fine.
On the second machine I am using git 2.8.0.windows.1 and vim does not
work. I sent a bug report to bugs@xxxxxxx, but frankly I don't know whose
bug this is, so I'm including it here as well.
The problem is that vim is just a black screen when git launches it. If I
mash enough keys eventually I see something that resembles vim output at
the bottom, but I can't actually use it.
I tried going into program files\git\usr\bin and just running vim.exe.
Again, black screen. If I press enter about 10 times I can see the
introduction screen. Then if I press : about 10-20 times it will go into
command mode and a single : appears. after pressing a few more keys all
the rest of the :s appear. Basically, everything is completely unusable.
I tried downloading vim 7.4 from www.vim.org, and low and behold, it
works. For now I've replaced the copy of vim.exe that ships with git with
the copy from www.vim.org. But this leaves me nervous that something is
seriously wrong.
Has anyone seen anything like this before, or have any ideas how I might
better diagnose this?
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