Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.12.2

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Forwarding to the lists, as my original message was rejected for html.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Witte <zezba9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just updated back to git 2.12.2 and git-lfs 2.0.2 and everything worked
> fine. Wish I could have gotten more info when it happened as its happened on
> a different computer as well. Will keep an eye out.
>
> Also another note that I really don't like with Windows for Git since 2.12
> is that It packages git-lfs with it. When I use the cmd it overrides the
> other git-lfs install I have. I have to manually go and remove the old
> git-lfs file in "program files" for things to work correctly.
>
> On top of this git-lfs needs to be registered in the environment vars
> because this is what the main git-lfs install does and apps Iv'e made like
> Git-It-GUI (https://github.com/reignstudios/Git-It-GUI) invoke git-lfs
> directly for some stuff. Because of this issue, the app will think a newer
> version is installed thats different from what the normal git cmd reports.
> Also doing git clone outside of the windows cmd with only git for windows
> installed doesn't invoke git-lfs correctly as its not registered in the
> system environment vars.  In short I don't think it should be shipped with
> the installer as it just creates confusion.
>
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that this is a problem in the windows credential manager.  I
>> tried this on:
>>   - git 2.12.2.windows.1 => failure
>>   - git 2.12.1.windows.1 => success
>>
>> More Details:
>> I have a perl script which uses (a copy of Git.pm) to invoke the
>> credential manager.  While debugging that script, I dumped the hash that I
>> read from the credential manager:
>>
>>     $git->credential($cred, 'fill');
>>     print Data::Dumper->Dump( [ $cred ] , [ "cred" ] );
>>
>> In 2.12.2, this produces output like this:
>>
>>     $cred = {
>>       'path' => '',
>>       'protocol' => 'https',
>>       'username' => '',
>>       'host' => 'some.host.com',
>>       'password' => ''
>>     };
>>
>> In 2.12.1, this produces output like this:
>>
>>     $cred = {
>>       'path' => '',
>>       'host' => 'some.host.com',
>>       'protocol' => 'https',
>>       'password' => 'my.password',
>>       'username' => 'mrappazzo'
>>     };
>>
>> While debugging this, I did something to get it to work on 2.12.2.  After
>> downgrading to 2.12.1, I manually removed the credentials from Credential
>> Manager (in Control Panel).  After successful authentication, they were back
>> in the credential manager.  I then upgraded to 2.12.2, and I was able to
>> successfully authenticate.
>>
>> To try to recreate the problem scenario again (in 2.12.2), I cleared the
>> credentials in Credential Manager.  Reattempting to authenticate gave the
>> credentials prompt.  The output of the perl hash was missing the password
>> again (thus, reproducing the error condition).
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>> _Mike
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 10:06:03 PM UTC-4, Andrew Witte wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll try to get more info tomorrow.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 2:59:10 PM UTC-7, Johannes Schindelin
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Andrew Witte wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > The git 2.12 GCM for Windows is broken. I tried doing a git clone and
>>>> > got "*remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied*".
>>>> > I downgraded to git 2.11.0 and everything worked fine.
>>>>
>>>> Could you test v2.12.1, too, and open a bug report at:
>>>> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/new ?
>>>>
>>>> I am particularly interested in any details you can share that would
>>>> help
>>>> other developers like me to reproduce the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Johannes
>
>



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