It is possible, albeit extremely awkward, to create a symbolic link in MSysGit. First, we need to make sure we are on Windows. Here’s an example function to check that: windows() { [[ -n “$WINDIR” ]]; } Now, we can’t do cmd /C, because MSysGit will fornicate with this argument and turn it into C:. … Read more
You can create a file named “.profile” in your home directory, for me that’s C:\Users\[user] Inside that file, put the following line of code: GIT_SSH=”/usr/bin/ssh.exe” This will set the GIT_SSH environment variable to use the ssh client included with git. The .profile script gets executed when you start your Git Bash command line. Edit: This … Read more
Since version 1.5.3 of the native Git client git clone and git init will probe the target file system for symlink support and set the local repository configuration for core.symlinks accordingly, i.e. to false for FAT or NTFS. This makes symlinks created and committed e.g. under Linux appear as plain text files that contain the … Read more
The command used to launch git bash is: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Prog\Git\1.7.1\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” I just tried the following in a DOS session: C:\>C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Prog\Git\1.7.1\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” VonC@XXX /c/ $ echo $HOME /c/Users/VonC By default, $HOME$%HOMEPATH%, but if I force %HOME%: set HOME=/another/path and then launch the same bash session: C:\>C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c “”C:\Prog\Git\1.7.1\bin\sh.exe” –login -i” … 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
Update June 2015, 6 years later: As detailed in “git mergetool winmerge“, a simple git config diff.tool winmerge will be enough. Git 2.5+ (Q2, 2015) is now aware of Winmerge as a diff or merge tool! Original answer (2009-2012) (msysgit, 1.6.5, DOS session) The first part (using winmerge) is described in “How do I view … 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 Git for Windows Since msysgit has been superseded by Git for Windows, using Git for Windows is now the easiest option.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.
To follow-up on Charles Bailey’s answer, here’s my git setup that’s using p4merge (free cross-platform 3way merge tool); tested on msys Git (Windows) install: git config –global merge.tool p4merge git config –global mergetool.p4merge.cmd ‘p4merge.exe \”$BASE\” \”$LOCAL\” \”$REMOTE\” \”$MERGED\”‘ or, from a windows cmd.exe shell, the second line becomes : git config –global mergetool.p4merge.cmd “p4merge.exe \”$BASE\” … Read more