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
I found this while googling for the issue: http://data.agaric.com/git-apply-does-not-work-from-within-local-checkout-unrelated-git-repository git apply will fail to do anything when used within a local checkout of a git repository (other than the one for the project the patch is made for), such as if you are patching a module that is within a site that is in Git … Read more
That settings during the install process of msysgit is actually here to fix the value of the core.autocrlf config. core.autocrlf If true, makes git convert CRLF at the end of lines in text files to LF when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set … Read more
At your Bash prompt, press Ctrl–v Ctrl–Left-Arrow and Ctrl–v Ctrl–Right-Arrow and make note of the output. You should see something like: ^[OD and ^[OC or similar. Add the following lines to your ~/.inputrc: “\eOC”: forward-word “\eOD”: backward-word where you will substitute \e for escape (^[) and the rest of the characters you got (OD, OC … Read more
Update Apr. 2023: With Git 2.41 (Q2 2023), the Unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has been updated. See commit b10cbda (30 Mar 2023) by Beat Bolli (bbolli). (Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in commit 5ae4bd1, 31 Mar 2023) unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 15 Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli … Read more
I just had this problem (with a newer version of Git, 1.7.9). I used the answer from VonC, but only a couple of steps were needed: Set the environment variable GIT_SSH to the location of plink.exe Run pageant.exe and load your private key On 64 bit Windows, the default location for plink is C:\Program Files … Read more
I had the exact same error; but the ~/.gitconfig global config file was the key. If you have a proxy with authentication you need to put in it: git config –global http.proxy http://login:password@our-proxy-server:8088 And it just works (with ‘git clone http:‘) Example of a blog detailing the same setup: GIT clone over HTTP: who knew? … Read more
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe” –login -i -c “git archive master | tar -x -C $0” “%~1”
Add the SHEBANG to the first line of hook, like so: #!/bin/sh echo “executing post-commit” exit 0 This had me stumped for a while as well and I saw that adding the shebang fixed it. In SVN world, while in *nix we have a “pre-commit” script and in Windows we had “pre-commit.bat” and SVN automatically … Read more
Git bash is already a batch file with content similar to this : C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Git\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” If you want run (and leave running) a shell script in the context of the shell, specify it at the command line. The trick is that when the script file name is interpreted, it uses the Windows … Read more