Update Oct. 2021: With Git 2.34 (Q4 2021), the unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has been updated. See commit 187fc8b (17 Sep 2021) by Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (carenas). (Merged by Junio C Hamano — gitster — in commit 3d875f9, 28 Sep 2021) unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 14 Update … Read more
From a blog I found: This [git-credential-cache] doesn’t work for Windows systems as git-credential-cache communicates through a Unix socket. Git for Windows Since msysgit has been superseded by Git for Windows, using Git for Windows is now the easiest option. Some versions of the Git for Windows installer (e.g. 2.7.4) have a checkbox during the … Read more
git config –global core.editor “‘C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe’ -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin” Or, for 64-bit Windows and a 32-bit install of Notepad++: git config –global core.editor “‘C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe’ -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin” Or, the following can be issued on the command line on either 32-bit or 64-bit Windows. It will pull the location of notepad++.exe from … Read more
I found this post and I have just posted something on my blog that might help. See Setting up a Msysgit Server with copSSH on Windows. It’s long, but I have successfully got this working on Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
The problem is that git by default using the “Linux” crypto backend. Beginning with Git for Windows 2.14, you can now configure Git to use SChannel, the built-in Windows networking layer as the crypto backend. This means that it will use the Windows certificate storage mechanism and you do not need to explicitly configure the … Read more
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 Windows SDK – which is essentially a standard MinGW/MSys system managed through the package manager mingw-get. We decided to just phase out the name “msysGit” (as well as the GitHub … Read more
You can significantly speed up Git on Windows by running three commands to set some config options: git config –global core.preloadindex true git config –global core.fscache true git config –global gc.auto 256 Notes: core.preloadindex does filesystem operations in parallel to hide latency (update: enabled by default in Git 2.1) core.fscache fixes UAC issues so you … 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
Create a file named .gitignore in your project’s directory. Ignore directories by entering the directory name into the file (with a slash appended): dir_to_ignore/ More information is here.
I’d try using the URL Encoded value of the @ symbol (%40) if you’re passing the password in the proxy url: http.proxy=http://userId:pwd%40123@ipaddress:port