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

Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:

On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:30 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

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Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/Windows2000serv/support/FAQW2KCP.mspx>

    Q.	What other tools are available for using the registry in batch?
    A.	

    If you install the Support Tools from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM, you
    can use REG.EXE to Add, Delete, Copy, Compare, Export, Import,
    Load a Hive, Query, Save, Restore, and Unload a Hive. To install
    the Support Tools:

    1.


    Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

    2.


    Click Browse this CD, and then open the Support\Tools folder.

    3.


    Double-click Setup.exe, and follow the on-screen instructions.


That does not sound like one could rely on its presence out of the
box, at least on Windows 2000.

-- 
David Kastrup