Announcing Git for Windows 1.9.5

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear users of Git for Windows,

a new Git for Windows version has been released, and we urge everybody to
update because it fixes some critical bugs.

Please download the new version from:

https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases/Git-1.9.5-preview20141217

The installer is called Git-1.9.5-preview20141217.exe, with checksums:

SHA-1: 21bd5187ef2f7e5124dd7bf1a0a8b7713a7c4953
MD5: b962aee34e84a749e4951237fb04ac39

Short release notes:

Git Release Notes (Git-1.9.5-preview20141217)
Last update: 17 December 2014

Changes since Git-1.9.4-preview20140929

New Features
- Comes with Git 1.9.5 plus Windows-specific patches.

Bugfixes
- Safeguards against bogus file names on NTFS (CVE-2014-9390).

For detailed release notes, please have a look here:

https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/raw/master/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf

On behalf of the Git for Windows developers,
Johannes

[Stanzilla]

Release notes at https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/raw/master/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf are *not* up to date.

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Stanzilla,

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Stanzilla wrote:

> Release notes at
> https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/raw/master/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf
> are *not* up to date.

Yep, the 'master' branch is intentionally behind. It will be updated
tomorrow, as well as the msysgit/git.git repository. The installer was
updated, which you are welcome to download and install.

Ciao,
Johannes

[frederic....@gmail.com]

<<a new Git for Windows version has been released, and we urge everybody to
update because it fixes some critical bugs. >>

Great for the bug fixes, thanks.

And... any possibility to switch to 2.1 instead of 1.9 ?

Or do you think there are still some problems with GIT 2.x on windows making better to stay in 1.x?

Fred

On Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:47:56 PM UTC+1, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

[Pat Tressel]

        Bugfixes
        - Safeguards against bogus file names on NTFS (CVE-2014-9390).

Apologies, but...is it possible to get back an old version?  I installed this version, and it no longer recognizes non-English characters that appear in some file names we have in our repo.  I'm only guessing that this has to do with the vuln fix.

(If you want, I can file a bug report -- this should be easy to reproduce, as all that's needed should be to clone our repo (https://github.com/flavour/eden) and do "git status" -- two files will appear as deleted, but they're not.  Hmm, it may be necessary to do the git clone with an old version, if the new version is unable to handle those file names.)

Thanks!

-- Pat

[Torsten Bögershausen]

You may consider to convert the repo into unicode,
and update all clients accessing this repo.


https://github.com/kblees/git/wiki

[Pat Tressel]

        Bugfixes
        - Safeguards against bogus file names on NTFS (CVE-2014-9390).

...  I installed this version, and it no longer recognizes non-English characters that appear in some file names we have in our repo.  I'm only guessing that this has to do with the vuln fix.

It doesn't relate to the vuln fix -- the relevant change was earlier.  I was upgrading from a rather old version of git.  Apparently file name encoding was different then.  The fix is to check out the files again, which will pick up their new encoding.  One can't specify the exact filenames in the git checkout -- command, but one can construct a wildcard that will pick out just those files, if needed to avoid checking out others.

I should clarify that I was offering to go file a bug against git, not msysgit.  But since this was an easy to fix side-effect of upgrading from an old git, that's likely not needed.  And the answer would have been...

Torsten --

You may consider to convert the repo into unicode,

and update all clients accessing this repo.

:-)  Oh, yes -- next up is checking the encoding of those file names...but they're likely ok in the repo, and it's only the checked-out names generated by the old git that were non-standard.

-- Pat

[lucas...@gmail.com]

I'm not sure if it was a change in this version or a previous version, but in gitk tags are now condensed down into 'n tags' instead of a list.

Is there a way to change the view to see all tags?