On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Steffen Prohaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you on branch devel in msysgit (the superproject)? > On branch devel, /etc/gitconfig sets HTML as the default help format. > > Steffen
Indeed it does - thanks. My workaround was going to suggest "git config help.format html", but setting up the superproject correctly is obviously better. I haven't done much of anything in the superproject, but for me switching branches is problematic b.c. msys-1.0.dll is in use by the currently running bash (I selected "bash prompt only"): This is probably not a big deal, but I thought that I'd mention it. - Eric /usr [master] % git remote show mob origin /usr [master] % git remote show origin * remote origin URL: http://repo.or.cz/r/msysgit.git Remote branch merged with 'git pull' while on branch devel devel Remote branch merged with 'git pull' while on branch master master Stale tracking branches (use 'git remote prune') work/p2w work/putty Tracked remote branches devel full master mob mso/silence_cmd msys work/cheetah work/git-svn work/git-svn-preview work/msmtp work/new-ssh /usr [master] % git remote update origin /usr [master] % git checkout M git Your branch is behind the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 5 commits, and can be fast-forwarded. /usr [master] % git merge origin/master Updating bb0b52e..22ef0a8 error: unable to unlink old 'bin/msys-1.0.dll' (Permission denied) /usr [master] % git checkout devel error: You have local changes to 'cmd/git.cmd'; cannot switch branches. /usr [master] % git checkout -f devel error: unable to unlink old 'bin/msys-1.0.dll' (Permission denied) Switched to branch "devel" /usr [devel] %
