From 4cca1c4230a7f4fb8acd3b70d7c43e5c07589375 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:07:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Describe how to avoid timing out with plink on xp64 MsysGit issue 251 says that plink needs to be run in Windows 2000 compatibility mode under certain circumstances, mention this in the release notes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf b/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf index 023de1fc..0f4ed220 100644 --- a/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf +++ b/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Last update: 07 May 2009\par These release notes describe issues specific to the Windows release.\par \par 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.\par -\pard\par +\par \b\fs24 Known issues\par \pard{\pntext\f1\'B7\tab}{\*\pn\pnlvlblt\pnf1\pnindent0{\pntxtb\'B7}}\fi-288\li432\b0\fs20 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.\par {\pntext\f1\'B7\tab}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)\par @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ General release notes covering the history of the core git commands are included {\pntext\f1\'B7\tab}When run from cmd.exe instead of Git Bash, some characters seem to be "swallowed" from Git's output (Issue 192).\par {\pntext\f1\'B7\tab}There are a spurious write errors during rebase (Issue 200) that seem not to be reproducible on most computers.\par {\pntext\f1\'B7\tab}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").\par +{\pntext\f1\'B7\tab}Plink has issues on XP64 when called from Bash. A workaround is to set Windows 2000 compatibility mode: in Plink.exe's Properties dialog, select the Compatibility tab, check "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and choose either Win2000 or WinXP. This only needs to be done once.\par \pard\b\fs24\par Changes since Git-1.6.2.2-preview20090408\par \par -- 2.11.4.GIT