How to Use Git

Git Release Notes (Git-1.9.0-preview20140217)

Last update: 17 February 2013

Introduction

These release notes describe issues specific to the Git for 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.

See http://git-scm.com/ for further details about Git including ports to other operating systems. Git for Windows is hosted at http://msysgit.github.com/.

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 shell.

• As Git for Windows is build without Python support, also all commands that require Python are not yet supported; namely: git p4, git remote-hg, git remote-testgit.

• 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.

• 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.

• Likewise, if you want to pass the -L/regex/ option to git log, MSys will misinterpret it as an absolute path and mangle it into a DOS-style one. You can prevent that by putting a semicolon into the regular expression, e.g. git log -L/\;*needle/.

• If configured to use Plink, you will have to connect with putty first and accept the host key.

• 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...