Git for Windows 1.6.3.2

Hi,

this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 is out.  Soon is the 
time that we switch to git.git's master.

Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090607)
Last update: 07 June 2009

Introduction
These release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.

General release notes covering the history of the core git commands are 
included in the subdirectory doc/git/html of the installation directory. 
Look for files starting with RelNotes.

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, 
  159).
- If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first.
- 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-1.6.3-preview20090507

New Features
- Comes with official git 1.6.3.2.
- Uses TortoisePlink instead of Plink if available.

Bugfixes
- Plink errors out rather than hanging when the user needs to accept a 
  host key first (Issue 96).
- The user home directory is inferred from $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH instead of 
  $HOME (Issue 108).
- The environment setting $CYGWIN=tty is ignored (Issues 138, 248 and 
  251).
- The "ls" command shows non-ASCII filenames correctly now (Issue 188).
- Adds more syntax files for vi (Issue 250).
- $HOME/.bashrc is included last from /etc/profile, allowing .bashrc to 
  override all settings in /etc/profile (Issue 255).
- Completion is case-insensitive again (Issue 256).
- The "start" command can handle arguments with spaces now (Issue 258).
- For some Git commands (such as "git commit"), vi no longer "restores" 
  the cursor position.

Hi,

I just installed it and it seems that ~ now points to /c ...
which is odd and break stuff.

Is this expected or a bug?
Or am I doing something wrong?

I installed default: using git bash, unix line endings, ssh, etc

-- 
Ferry Huberts



On Sun, June 7, 2009 16:33, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 is out.  Soon is the
time that we switch to git.git's master.

Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090607)
Last update: 07 June 2009

Introduction
These release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.

General release notes covering the history of the core git commands are
included in the subdirectory doc/git/html of the installation directory.
Look for files starting with RelNotes.

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,
  159).
- If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first.
- 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-1.6.3-preview20090507

New Features
- Comes with official git 1.6.3.2.
- Uses TortoisePlink instead of Plink if available.

Bugfixes
- Plink errors out rather than hanging when the user needs to accept a
  host key first (Issue 96).
- The user home directory is inferred from $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH instead of
  $HOME (Issue 108).
- The environment setting $CYGWIN=tty is ignored (Issues 138, 248 and
  251).
- The "ls" command shows non-ASCII filenames correctly now (Issue 188).
- Adds more syntax files for vi (Issue 250).
- $HOME/.bashrc is included last from /etc/profile, allowing .bashrc to
  override all settings in /etc/profile (Issue 255).
- Completion is case-insensitive again (Issue 256).
- The "start" command can handle arguments with spaces now (Issue 258).
- For some Git commands (such as "git commit"), vi no longer "restores"
  the cursor position.


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On Sun, June 7, 2009 16:33, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 is out.  Soon is the
time that we switch to git.git's master.

- The user home directory is inferred from $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH instead of
  $HOME (Issue 108).

this does not work for me.
win xp sp3, 32bits

with this patch it is fixed/reverted:

--- Program Files/Git/etc/profile.org	2009-06-08 12:31:29.968750000 +0200
+++ Program Files/Git/etc/profile	2009-06-08 12:31:16.718750000 +0200

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@

 # Set up USER's home directory
 if [ -z "$HOME" -o ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
-  HOME="$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH"
+  HOME="$USERPROFILE"
 fi

 if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then

Heya,

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:43, Ferry Huberts[off-list ref] wrote:

this does not work for me.

Perhaps you want to define 'does not work'

with this patch it is fixed/reverted:

I doubt simply reverting the 'fix' is going to be a good idea,
methinks the original fix was done for a reason, no?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:43, Ferry Huberts[off-list ref] 
wrote:

quoted

this does not work for me.

Perhaps you want to define 'does not work'

Well, it is clear, no?  It "does not work".

:-)

quoted

with this patch it is fixed/reverted:

I doubt simply reverting the 'fix' is going to be a good idea, methinks 
the original fix was done for a reason, no?

The original fix was indeed done for a reason.

My best guess (as I said in another email on the msysgit list today, where 
Ferry probably did not expect helpful information): msys-1.0.dll was not 
properly updated.

I worked on a check for this some time ago, but I forgot to finish and 
include it in our official 'devel'.

Ciao,
Dscho

On Mon, June 8, 2009 12:51, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

Heya,

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:43, Ferry Huberts[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

this does not work for me.

Perhaps you want to define 'does not work'

sure:

This is what cmd.exe says:
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\hubertsf

This is what Git bash says:
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH='\'

Appearently $HOMEPATH is somehow different.
Note that I do have Cygwin installed, but as far as i can see Cygwin does not cause $HOMEPATH to be set to /

The original fix was indeed done for a reason.

My best guess (as I said in another email on the msysgit list today, where
Ferry probably did not expect helpful information): msys-1.0.dll was not
properly updated.

sorry for that, I am subscribed to git.devel only. probably should
have checked the msysgit list

I worked on a check for this some time ago, but I forgot to finish and
include it in our official 'devel'.

does this mean that we can expect a '-2' msysgit release soon?

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Ferry Huberts wrote:

quoted

The original fix was indeed done for a reason.

My best guess (as I said in another email on the msysgit list today, 
where Ferry probably did not expect helpful information): msys-1.0.dll 
was not properly updated.

sorry for that, I am subscribed to git.devel only. probably should have 
checked the msysgit list

quoted

I worked on a check for this some time ago, but I forgot to finish and 
include it in our official 'devel'.

does this mean that we can expect a '-2' msysgit release soon?

No.

Ciao,
Dscho

Many thanks, Johannes.

2009/6/7 Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]

Hi,

this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.3.2 is out.  Soon is the
time that we switch to git.git's master.

Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090607)
Last update: 07 June 2009

Introduction
These release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.

General release notes covering the history of the core git commands are
included in the subdirectory doc/git/html of the installation directory.
Look for files starting with RelNotes.

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,
 159).
- If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first.
- 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-1.6.3-preview20090507

New Features
- Comes with official git 1.6.3.2.
- Uses TortoisePlink instead of Plink if available.

Bugfixes
- Plink errors out rather than hanging when the user needs to accept a
 host key first (Issue 96).
- The user home directory is inferred from $HOMEDRIVE\$HOMEPATH instead of
 $HOME (Issue 108).
- The environment setting $CYGWIN=tty is ignored (Issues 138, 248 and
 251).
- The "ls" command shows non-ASCII filenames correctly now (Issue 188).
- Adds more syntax files for vi (Issue 250).
- $HOME/.bashrc is included last from /etc/profile, allowing .bashrc to
 override all settings in /etc/profile (Issue 255).
- Completion is case-insensitive again (Issue 256).
- The "start" command can handle arguments with spaces now (Issue 258).
- For some Git commands (such as "git commit"), vi no longer "restores"
 the cursor position.

Hi,

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Ferry Huberts wrote:

quoted

quoted

The original fix was indeed done for a reason.

My best guess (as I said in another email on the msysgit list today, 
where Ferry probably did not expect helpful information): msys-1.0.dll 
was not properly updated.

sorry for that, I am subscribed to git.devel only. probably should have 
checked the msysgit list

quoted

I worked on a check for this some time ago, but I forgot to finish and 
include it in our official 'devel'.

does this mean that we can expect a '-2' msysgit release soon?

No.

Just to clarify: there is no -2 release, because it is a new day.  And no, 
I did not like the feeling that you "expect" me to do the work at all.

An example I positively _like_ is Tom Koelman, who tried the net installer 
(pointing out an issue I had not encountered before) and built his own Git 
installer, the better to help me fix bugs in the future.

Ciao,
Dscho

Just to clarify: there is no -2 release, because it is a new day.  And no,
I did not like the feeling that you "expect" me to do the work at all.

An example I positively _like_ is Tom Koelman, who tried the net installer
(pointing out an issue I had not encountered before) and built his own Git
installer, the better to help me fix bugs in the future.

wow

sorry I rubbed you the wrong way.
that was by no means my intention and I'm surprised that you took it that way.

AFAIK I was being polite and positive. I've sent you a patch by which I made it
work. I just asked whether there would be a new release _without_ expecting
anything.

besides, for me the -2 question was totally valid in the light of a broken
installer and what you did the last time that happened

I have no time to build my own installer. I guess we're both swamped by work...

Am 08.06.2009 12:58 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

My best guess (as I said in another email on the msysgit list today, where 
Ferry probably did not expect helpful information): msys-1.0.dll was not 
properly updated.

Hi Dscho,

I *knew* there must be a mailing list for msysgit only, but I couldn't 
figure out where. Can you please give me a pointer where to register? 
I'm registered with Junios list, but as a windows user I'd like to read 
and participate with your's as well.

Cheers,
Dirk

Heya,

2009/6/9 Dirk Süsserott [off-list ref]:

I *knew* there must be a mailing list for msysgit only, but I couldn't
figure out where. Can you please give me a pointer where to register? I'm
registered with Junios list, but as a windows user I'd like to read and
participate with your's as well.

Try Google groups [0].

[0] http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier