Re: Problems installing git-for-windows

2015-12-07 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Peter, On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Peter Toye wrote: > Thanks - sorry I didn't report the version number - it was 2.6.3 as you > suggested. I didn't realise that development was so active. Do yo know > when the next version will be stable or should I go for an earlier > version? I am "side-tracked" w

Re: Problems installing git-for-windows

2015-12-07 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Peter, On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Peter Toye wrote: > 1) It wanted to install into my User directory instead of the > Program Files directory, which is the best place for all programs. There has been a regression in Git for Windows 2.6.3 (please *always* state the version when reporting bugs) that

Re: Problems installing git-for-windows

2015-12-07 Thread Stefan Beller
+cc Johannes IIUC Git-for-Windows specific issues are handled in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues instead of this mailing list. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Peter Toye wrote: > Hi, > > I've just downloaded git-for-windows. It uninstalled an earlier > version that I had (about 5 y

Problems installing git-for-windows

2015-12-07 Thread Peter Toye
Hi, I've just downloaded git-for-windows. It uninstalled an earlier version that I had (about 5 years old) and I got some problems. 1) It wanted to install into my User directory instead of the Program Files directory, which is the best place for all programs. The installer told me that this had