Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

this mail tries to inform you that a new version of Git for Windows has
been released.  Overall, the differences to Git 1.6.3 have been reduced
dramatically, thanks to the immense efforts of Johannes Sixt on the test
suite.

There are two major modifications relative to git.git, though: Marius
Storm-Olsen's readdir() and nedmalloc patches.  They are rather large, but
well-contained changes, and we tested extensively in the last few weeks.

One consequence is that the test-suite no longer takes 45 minutes on the
machine I test on, but less than 20 minutes.

And now, without further ado, the release notes:

Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507)
Last update: 07 May 2009

Known issues

- Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the
 installation; namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git
 cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git send-email, git shell.
- The Logitec QuickCam software can cause spurious crashes. See "Why does
 make often crash creating a sh.exe.stackdump file when I try to compile
 my source code?" on the MinGW Wiki
 (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Environment_issues)
- The Quick Launch icon will only be installed for the user running setup
 (typically the Administrator). This is a technical restriction and will
 not change.
- Git Bash launched through the Explorer shell extension does not have the
 git icon in its taskbar. This is a technical restriction and will not
 change.
- git send-mail does not work properly (Issue 27).
- curl uses $HOME/_netrc instead of $HOME/.netrc.
- If you want to specify a different location for --upload-pack, you have
 to start the absolute path with two slashes. Otherwise MSys will mangle
 the path.
- git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80,
 108, 159, 188).
- If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first,
 as you cannot accept the host key due to the console window being
 blocked (Issue 96).
- MinGW does not support IPv6 yet (Issue 182).
- When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be
 "swallowed" from Git's output (Issue 192).
- There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem
 not to be reproducible on most computers.
- As merge tools are executed using the MSys bash, options starting with
 "/" need to be handled specially: MSys would interpret that as a POSIX
 path, so you need to double the slash (Issue 226).  Example: instead of
 "/base", say "//base".  Also, extra care has to be paid to pass Windows
 programs Windows paths, as they have no clue about MSys style POSIX
 paths -- You can use something like $(cmd //c echo "$POSIXPATH").

Changes since Git-1.6.2.2-preview20090408

New Features

- Comes with official git 1.6.3.
- Thanks to Marius Storm-Olsen, Git has a substantially faster readdir()
 implementation now.
- Marius Storm-Olsen also contributed a patch to include nedmalloc, again
 speeding up Git noticably.
- Compiled with GCC 4.4.0

Bugfixes

- Portable Git contains a README.portable.
- Portable Git now actually includes the builtins.
- Portable Git includes git-cmd.bat and git-bash.bat.
- Portable Git is now shipped as a .7z; it still is a self-extracting
 archive if you rename it to .exe.
- Git includes the Perl Encode module now.
- Git now includes the filter-branch tool.
- There is a workaround for a Windows 7 regression triggering a crash in
 the progress reporting (e.g. during a clone). This fixes issues 236 and
 247.
- gitk tries not to crash when it is closed while reading references
 (Issue 125, thanks Pat Thoyts).
- In some setups, hard-linking is not as reliable as it should be, so we
 have a workaround which avoids hard links in some situations (Issues 222
 and 229).
- git-svn sets core.autocrlf to false now, hopefully shutting up most of
 the git-svn reports.

Ciao,
Dscho (on behalf of the msysGit team)

1st: thanks to all participants for making this possible.

2nd: on my vista system (family premium sp1, French edition), I get a
git setup window towards the end of setup saying

Line 620: Unable to read file "etc\fileList-builtins.txt"

Beyond this setup hickup, all seems to be in order and working locally
(I have not tried pushing stuff yet).

-- 
Christian
--
http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !