From 647ee57f911a9db62be4358fd4ac151074cb601c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:59:48 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Git for Windows 1.7.10-preview20120409 --- 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 29bb5fc2..f52742e3 100644 --- a/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf +++ b/share/WinGit/ReleaseNotes.rtf @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ See \cf0{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://git-scm.com/"}}{\fldrslt{\ul\cf2 ht {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80, 159).\par {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}If configured to use plink, you will have to connect with putty first and accept the host key.\par {\pntext\f2\'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\f2\'B7\tab}Unless you define the environment variable MSYS_WATCH_FSTAB (the value must be a non-empty string), Git Bash will not see any drives that have been attached after bash was started. This is a workaround to help the speed of cmd scripts using parts of Git that are implemented as shell scripts.\line\line\pard\li144 Should you encounter other problems, please search the mailing list first ({\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit"}}{\fldrslt{\ul\cf2 http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit}}}\f0\fs20 ) and ask there if you do not find anything.\par +{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Unless you define the environment variable MSYS_WATCH_FSTAB (the value must be a non-empty string), Git Bash will not see any drives that have been attached after bash was started. This is a workaround to help the speed of cmd scripts using parts of Git that are implemented as shell scripts.\line\line\pard\li144 Should you encounter other problems, please search the mailing list first (\cf0{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit"}}{\fldrslt{\ul\cf2 http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit}}}\cf1\f0\fs20 ) and ask there if you do not find anything.\par \pard\b\fs24\par Changes since Git-1.7.9-preview20120201\par \par @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Bugfixes\par {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Clarifications in the installer.\par {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Console output is now even thread-safer.\par {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Better support for foreign remotes (Mercurial remotes are disabled for now, due to lack of a Python version that can be compiled within the development environment).\par +{\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Git Cheetah no longer writes big log files directly to C:\\.\par {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Development environment: enhancements in the script to make a 64-bit setup.\par {\pntext\f2\'B7\tab}Development environment: enhancements to the 64-bit Cheetah build.\par \pard\b\fs24\par -- 2.11.4.GIT