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
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
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.
First, turn off compression: git config –global core.compression 0 Next, let’s do a partial clone to truncate the amount of info coming down: git clone –depth 1 <repo_URI> When that works, go into the new directory and retrieve the rest of the clone: git fetch –unshallow or, alternately, git fetch –depth=2147483647 Now, do a regular … Read more
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
The proper way to get LF endings in Windows is to first set core.autocrlf to false: git config –global core.autocrlf false You need to do this if you are using msysgit, because it sets it to true in its system settings. Now git won’t do any line ending normalization. If you want files you check … Read more
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