On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:20:28 -0700 Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:
> I dug into this some more, and as surprising as it is, I believe the > release of Git 2.8.0 is just busted. I had an installer for 2.7.0 > lying around, so after uninstalling 2.8.0 and re-installing 2.7.0, > everything works fine. > > I'm not terribly active in the Git community so I don't know what the > procedure is for things like this, but this seems like a fairly > serious regression. Suggestions on how to proceed? [...] The GfW maintainer had already spotted the bug (in the msys2-runtime, IUUC) like some two hours ago -- see the bug #711 in the GfW tracker. I'm pretty sure a fix will result in a corrected installer being released. If you can't wait for it for some reason and have to use 2.8.0, you could build GfW from the sources with the commit I mentioned having been reverted before the build). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
