Edit 2018: Since my 2010-2012-2014 answer, in 2015 Git for Windows uses msys2, as I detail here. See more in “How are msys, msys2, and msysgit related to each other?”. Edit (2 more years later: October 2014) Johannes Schindelin just explained (Oct. 2014) that msysgit is phased out: We now have a light-weight Git for … Read more
While this question is still hot… some nice people contributed lots of bugfixes to all three projects, so this is what I did to get TortoiseGit on Win7x64, previously failing on all combinations: install mSysGit (network installer) into C:\msysgit, it will download the source and compile it leaving you in a bash git prompt. Stable … Read more
Git does support some pathspec globbing, but you need to be careful to shell-escape the characters so they aren’t interpreted by in your case, msys bash, which doesn’t support more sophisticated wildcard expansion. EDIT: Also, for your reset example, you can just pass the directory as an argument to git reset and git will operate … Read more
Ok, wow. The solution is to disable custom font color in console2. If enabled, it overrides the expected colors. I use a custom color to give me opaque text when using c2’s alpha transparency. I completely forgot about it.
Since my comment actually provided the answer, I’ll post it. How about escaping a forward slash to another forward slash like //. It works for me when I execute this command where I escaped the /r parameter: start C:/folder/beep 2000 250 100 //r 3 Source: http://oldwiki.mingw.org/index.php/switches%20with%20forward%20slashes Minimalist GNU for Windows Passing switches with forward slashes … Read more
very new to this so setting core.autocrlf to false didn’t make too much sense to me. So for other newbies, go to the config file in you .git folder and add: [core] autocrlf = false under the [core] heading.
You get bash regardless of which option you pick, the latter options just add methods for using Git outside it. For the latter options, msysgit adds Windows builds of common Linux utilities to PATH. This includes find, kill and sort, as well as cp, ls, rm, and about 20-30 others. The problem with the first … Read more
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So, by default you won’t have a .bashrc file so just navigate your to your home directory by typing: cd ~ create or edit the .bashrc with vim (or whatever editor you are comfortable with): vim .bashrc Here is the line I had to add to mine (I am running a 64 bit OS so … Read more
Are they not the same thing? On: http://msysgit.github.com/ The title is Git for Windows, the application is msysgit. Even in the event they are not, I expect the only differences will be in the method of compilation (i.e. compiler used and any options set) and any extraneous packaging (such as having a bash emulating shell … Read more