Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Johannes Schindelin]

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)

Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Christian MICHON]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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 !

Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:

> 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).

Thanks!  Your feedback is really appreciated (and of course, the praise, 
too).

In response to Bernt's report, I uploaded a new Git installer which does 
not have that problem (and this time I actually tested it again).

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Hi Johannes!
> 
> I just tried installing the new preview version and at the end of the
> install procedure I get a pop-up with:
> 
> ,----[ Git Setup ]
> | Line 620: Unable to read file "etc\fileList-builtins.txt"
> `----
> 
> Install System: Asus Eee PC HE1000 running Windows XP on NTFS
> 
> I removed the previous preview version before trying this installation.

Thank you very much!.  It was a bug in my build process.  Fixed, pushed 
and uploaded as Git-1.6.3-preview20090507-2.exe!  (The Portable Git is 
unaffected of this bug.)

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Bernt Hansen]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Thank you very much!.  It was a bug in my build process.  Fixed, pushed 
> and uploaded as Git-1.6.3-preview20090507-2.exe!  (The Portable Git is 
> unaffected of this bug.)

Thanks!  This new version fixes the problem :)

-Bernt

Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Peter Krefting]

Johannes Schindelin:

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

I installed the -2 version, but I am having problems pushing:

  > git pull
  git-upload-pack: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I used the install that puts git in the PATH, and am running it from CMD in 
this case. Any ideas on what might be wrong?

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Peter Krefting wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin:
> 
> > Git Release Notes (Git-1.6.3-preview20090507)
> > Last update: 07 May 2009
> 
> I installed the -2 version, but I am having problems pushing:
> 
>  > git pull
>  git-upload-pack: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot
>  open shared object file: No such file or directory
>  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> I used the install that puts git in the PATH, and am running it from CMD in
> this case. Any ideas on what might be wrong?

First I scratched my head why Git for Windows would look for a .so instead 
of a .dll file.

But the puzzle is easy to solve: git-upload-pack is called on the remote 
side.  So it is not Git for Windows having this issue.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Announce: Git for Windows 1.6.3

[Peter Krefting]

Johannes Schindelin:

> But the puzzle is easy to solve: git-upload-pack is called on the remote 
> side.  So it is not Git for Windows having this issue.

Yes, of course. I didn't think of that.

Now to figure out what makes it different from when I do a pull from other 
Git installs over ssh from this repository and have it working.

Thanks for the pointer!

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/