For Windows-only people, using vi (or whatever) is pretty painful.
I heartily recommend to all Windows only users to install and learn the
ways of the excellent gvim port - really it's awesome!
Failing that (I am also not going to engage in flamewar about editors,
in case anyone wonders), I presume that the "git bash" should be able to
be configured to use whatever pleases you. I will verify this later, but
you may want to try to
$ export EDITOR=/path/to/notepad.exe
If I make the file using Notepad and the commit becomes corrupted
as a result of the <carriage return><line feed> situation, is there a
clean way to fix the mess?
What exactly is that situation? What are the exact problems?
Take not of the core.autocrlf option, please, although I don't think
that it affects commit messages from what
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html has to
say about it. I would be greatly interested in any findings you make!
I haven't tried any of this yet. Anyone know what msysGit thinks
should be the editor? Is there a way to change it to something simple?
See above.
A footnote or maybe a separate page for Windows users would be a big
help here. The "~/.." notation is foreign to Windows and there is no
~/.ssh directory after a msysGit install & build.
I'll take your word on this. Notice, however, that from my experience,
the git bash does a rather decent job at faking a *nix-like environment
to you (without going all the cygwin way). So any Linux- or whatever
guide on configuring OpenSSH should apply rather well. Specifically,
doing something along the lines of
$ test -f ~/.ssh || mkdir ~/.ssh ; notepad.exe ~/.ssh/config
should Just Work. But you're probably well beyond that point by now...
If, like me, you already have SSH keys, it's not at all clear what
you're supposed to do with them. Using msysGen, I generated another set
and discovered where msysGen wants them (it's C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\.ssh). It would also be useful to note the use of
the -C switch to set the user name in the keys since the default
is login-n...@machine-name on a Windows box which almost never equates
to anything useful.
So it is on Linux. I fail to see the problem - I use that exact user
name for my gerrit interaction. I could add additional keys if I needed
additional machines.
Cheers
- Felix
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