Git for Windows 1.6.4
Johannes Schindelin
this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less well
tested than the previous versions, mainly because I was busy with other
things and asked for help with testing on the msysGit mailing list and I
am very impatient.
Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.4-preview20090729)
Last update: 29 July 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.
- 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
and accept the host key.
- 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-1.6.3.2-preview20090608
New Features
- Comes with official git 1.6.4.
- Supports https:// URLs, thanks to Erik Faye-Lund.
- Supports send-email, thanks to Erik Faye-Lund (Issue 27).
- Updated Tcl/Tk to version 8.5.7, thanks to Pat Thoyts.
Bugfixes
- The home directory is now discovered properly (Issues 108 & 259).
- IPv6 is supported now, thanks to Martin Martin Storsj (Issue 182).
Christian MICHON
Schindelin<Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less well
> tested than the previous versions, mainly because I was busy with other
> things and asked for help with testing on the msysGit mailing list and I
> am very impatient.
I'm still too busy, but since I saw your email arriving live and I've
Vista here, I kept some minutes for you :)
>
> Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.4-preview20090729)
> Last update: 29 July 2009
>
bad news: here the installation complains around the end (all default answers)
"Could not set CR/LF behavior: core.autoCRLF true"
Using git gui works, calling gitk from it works.
But git bash initiates a shell complaining:
====================================================================
-------------------------------------------------------
Building and Installing Git
-------------------------------------------------------
sh.exe": cd: /git: No such file or directory
-------------------------
Hello, dear Git developer.
This is a minimal MSYS environment to work on Git.
Your build failed... Please fix it, and give feedback on the Git list.
Welcome to Git (version 1.6.4-preview20090729)
Run 'git help git' to display the help index.
Run 'git help <command>' to display help for specific commands.
Run '/share/Git (version 1.6.4-preview20090729)/add-shortcut.tcl' to add a short
cut to msysGit.
====================================================================
Apparently, git binaries are not in the path. I'll check on a winXP
and win2003 environments asap.
--
Christian
--
http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !
Johannes Schindelin
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johannes
> Schindelin<Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less
> > well tested than the previous versions, mainly because I was busy with
> > other things and asked for help with testing on the msysGit mailing
> > list and I am very impatient.
>
> I'm still too busy, but since I saw your email arriving live and I've
> Vista here, I kept some minutes for you :)
>
> >
> > Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.4-preview20090729)
> > Last update: 29 July 2009
> >
>
> bad news: here the installation complains around the end (all default answers)
Uh oh.
> "Could not set CR/LF behavior: core.autoCRLF true"
>
> Using git gui works, calling gitk from it works.
> But git bash initiates a shell complaining:
>
> ====================================================================
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Building and Installing Git
> -------------------------------------------------------
> sh.exe": cd: /git: No such file or directory
Ah, you are not installing Git for Windows, but msysGit.
Now the question is if full or net.
I will not guess, especially since I am dead tired after that hour it
always takes to make a new release.
> Apparently, git binaries are not in the path. I'll check on a winXP
> and win2003 environments asap.
Pff.
I think it is the lack of libcrypto.dll and libssl.dll. And now I know
you used the net installer.
As I said, would have been nice to be precise.
Ciao,
Dscho
Christian MICHON
I confirm I see the same problems on Vista and Windows 2003 (it was a
fresh install of the OS).
I see you're replying now. I'll move my answers to next email.
Christian MICHON
I'm installing http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.6.4-preview20090729.exe:
I should have been more accurate. But each time I reported on this
package, it was on the preview.
> Now the question is if full or net.
I believe it's preview, not full, not net. My download size is 11.3MB
and the md5sum is 16F1AB9CBFB75553DC19C3B17BB96C57
>
> I will not guess, especially since I am dead tired after that hour it
> always takes to make a new release.
I believe we're both on CET :)
>
>> Apparently, git binaries are not in the path. I'll check on a winXP
>> and win2003 environments asap.
>
> Pff.
>
> I think it is the lack of libcrypto.dll and libssl.dll. And now I know
> you used the net installer.
no, I did not use the net install, nor the full install. I can see
from the wiki the net installer is a 1.8MB download.
??? libcrypto and libssl *are* in the package preview...
It's actually quite funny, but I guess I've seen it all on Windows:
all the binaries are here with their libraries until the setup
complains about core.autoCRLF. After this stage, git.exe gets
deleted... And it's not a virus triggering this (I checked).
I managed to quickly copy it before it got erased, and manually added
it back after the setup completes. It works.
I'll not try the full install; at least from my point of view, it's a
regression on the *preview* package, which I'm using on a daily basis.
>
> As I said, would have been nice to be precise.
>
let me know if it's not yet clear enough: I'm tired too, almost 1am :)
Erik Faye-Lund
<snip>
> - Supports send-email
Forgot to update the list of unsupported commands?
--
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
kusm...@gmail.com
(+47) 986 59 656
Erik Faye-Lund
>
> this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less well
> tested than the previous versions, mainly because I was busy with other
> things and asked for help with testing on the msysGit mailing list and I
> am very impatient.
I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729,
Erik Faye-Lund
>
> this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less well
> tested than the previous versions, mainly because I was busy with other
> things and asked for help with testing on the msysGit mailing list and I
> am very impatient.
I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729,
due to lack of libcrypto.dll during installation. The command promt
says:
Erik Faye-Lund
> I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729,
> due to lack of libcrypto.dll during installation. The command promt
> says:
OK, this new netbook is neat, apart from the tiny keyboard ;)
I'll try again - sorry for the noise.
I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729,
due to lack of libcrypto.dll during installation. The command promt
says:
-------------------------------------------------------
Checking environment
-------------------------------------------------------
Environment is clean. Can install msysgit.
-------------------------------------------------------
Fetching the latest MSys environment
-------------------------------------------------------
...after that I'm getting a messagebox saying that git.exe failed to
find libcrypto.dll.
Checking in c:\msysgit\bin I find most needed stuff, but not
libcrypto.dll (or libssl.dll, which I suspect would have caused
similar issues if it wasn't for the lacking libcrypto.dll)
Erik Faye-Lund
> Checking in c:\msysgit\bin I find most needed stuff, but not
Uhm, that should have been c:\msysgit\installer-tmp\bin...
Johannes Schindelin
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Johannes
> Schindelin<Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > I will not guess, especially since I am dead tired after that hour it
> > always takes to make a new release.
>
> I believe we're both on CET :)
I guess I am really too tired, as I thought that I had tested, but
obviously only tested the https-and-send-email installer.
But in the meantime, I found the issue, fixed and re-uploaded it. FWIW
the portable application was not affected, and funnily enough, the net
installer works (although I wonder why).
Thanks for your report and help in diagnosing the problem.
Ciao,
Dscho
Johannes Schindelin
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Johannes
> Schindelin<Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
> > - Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the
> > installation; [...] git send-email, git shell.
> <snip>
> > - Supports send-email
>
> Forgot to update the list of unsupported commands?
Thanks, fixed.
Ciao,
Dscho
Sverre Rabbelier
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 17:03, Erik Faye-Lund<kusm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729,
Good for you, care to be a tad more verbose?
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
Johannes Schindelin
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Erik
> Faye-Lund<kusm...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I'm having issues installing msysGit-netinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729,
> > due to lack of libcrypto.dll during installation.
Just to be sure, I tried the same, but it worked here! Of course, that
was due to me making a new net installer...
Oh well, please find a new net installer (that I briefly tested,
actually).
Hopefully by now everybody understands that Git for Windows is Beta for a
reason.
Ciao,
Dscho
Erik Faye-Lund
Schindelin<Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
> Oh well, please find a new net installer (that I briefly tested,
> actually).
Works beautifully! Thanks a lot!
Christian MICHON
Schindelin<Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Johannes
>> Schindelin<Johannes....@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > I will not guess, especially since I am dead tired after that hour it
>> > always takes to make a new release.
>>
>> I believe we're both on CET :)
>
> I guess I am really too tired, as I thought that I had tested, but
> obviously only tested the https-and-send-email installer.
>
> But in the meantime, I found the issue, fixed and re-uploaded it. FWIW
> the portable application was not affected, and funnily enough, the net
> installer works (although I wonder why).
http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.6.4-preview20090730.exe
works on Vista and winXP. I will test on win2003 later, but I guess it
should be ok.
>
> Thanks for your report and help in diagnosing the problem.
>
no pb
Konstantin Khomoutov
wrote:
> this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out.
on Windows XP SP3.
Ferry Huberts
> this mail informs you that Git for Windows 1.6.4 is out. It is less well
I installed it using the normal installer under WinXP, and am not seeing
problems.
I have core.autocrlf=input
that was a fast release :-)
thanks!
Ferry
rupert.thurner
touch the file contents:
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF
is there any way to prevent this? or what triggers the conversion
attempt?
rupert.
On Jul 29, 11:40 pm, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schinde...@gmx.de>
wrote:
