Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

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Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: David Kastrup <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:29

Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:
Author: Johannes Schmidt-Ehrenberg [off-list ref]
Date:   Mon Aug 13 19:00:39 2007 +0200

    mergetool: fixed parsing of registry entry for kdiff3

    The old code failed on Windows Vista. The output of
    reg.exe or something else may be a bit different.
    This patch improves the parsing code to be more robust.
I seem to remember that you can't rely on reg.exe being available on
Windows.  The Microsoft support pages talk about using regedit.exe
instead (which is quite more cumbersome).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Steffen Prohaska <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:29

On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
Author: Johannes Schmidt-Ehrenberg [off-list ref]
Date:   Mon Aug 13 19:00:39 2007 +0200

    mergetool: fixed parsing of registry entry for kdiff3

    The old code failed on Windows Vista. The output of
    reg.exe or something else may be a bit different.
    This patch improves the parsing code to be more robust.
I seem to remember that you can't rely on reg.exe being available on
Windows.  The Microsoft support pages talk about using regedit.exe
instead (which is quite more cumbersome).
I successfully ran it on at least Windows XP and Vista. On Vista,
it was present on a quite fresh system (Visual Studio not yet
installed). So I'm quite confident that it's likely to be there.

Do you have a reference? I searched msdn and was not able to
immediately find the recommendation you're referring to.

	Steffen
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