Windows 10: Using GIT GUI on Microsoft

JoshXIV · Jun 12, 2019

When I attempt to check out a branch a "Question ?" popup generates saying "Unlink of file 'File path' failed. Should I try again?

When I click "No" the popup below generates

Why is this not allowing me to check out a branch? What should I try to do?

:)

Dave Levy in London usually · Jun 12, 2019

git gui

Somehow git-gui has been installed on my windows 10 system. It has installed its commands into the file explorer menu.

It is failing on an SSL call.

I get the following error message
Code:
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/dfl1955/xxxxxxx.git/': error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version.
How can I determine how this was installed?

Is it the windows ssl layer that is a problem?

I have undertaken the work using the windows bash shell and installed git to do it.

I am aware that the error is displayed by what seems to be a non-windows product but the remediation would seem to require using windows tools.

Dave

Brink · Jun 12, 2019

What’s new in Git for Windows 2.11?

Git for Windows v2.11.0 is out! Download it here (homepage is here).

The new version corresponds to Git v2.11.0 (release notes are here, and our friends over at GitHub blogged about it, too). Apart from the improvements inherited from the “upstream Git” project, Git for Windows also updated some libraries to address security concerns, and dropped support for Windows XP.

Performance improvements

The new Git version features speed improvements all over the place. It is my pleasure to say that some of these improvements originate in the Git for Windows project itself, such as the acceleration of git rebase‘s startup phase by making the patch ID generation smarter.

A few more speedups went into Git for Windows specifically

the hash generation now leverages OpenSSL’s Intel CPU support, which speeds it up noticeably.

When working in large worktrees, git add is now a lot faster.

The “fscache” feature that already speeds up most disk accesses now plays better with sparse checkouts.

The internal cache to handle file names in a case-insensitive manner is now much more efficient.

Even if Git for Windows does not ship with Git LFS (due to size concerns), the new Git for Windows has support for substantially faster clones when using many binary files managed by Git LFS.

Experimental, faster difftool

One of the factors contributing to Git for Windows “feeling” slower than, say, Git on Linux, is the fact that some Git functionality is actually not implemented in native code, but as shell or Perl script. As neither a shell nor a Perl are provided by default in a regular Windows setup, Git for Windows ships with a “pseudo POSIX” environment called MSYS2 (which is in turn based on Cygwin). The need for this POSIX emulation layer slows things down considerably.

That is the reason why the Git for Windows converts scripted parts into native code, as was done with the interactive rebase in Git for Windows v2.10.

In Git for Windows v2.11, there is now a difftool that is a “builtin”, i.e. native code. As the new builtin difftool needs more wide-spread testing, it is an opt-in feature; by default, git difftool will still call the original script.

Visual Studio support

By far the most effort in the v2.11 cycle has gone into building Git for Windows’ master branch with Visual Studio. In fact, there are two ways to build via Visual C: using the command-line, and in Visual Studio. Both options work using Visual Studio’s Community edition, by the way.

I would like to indulge in enumerating just a couple of the goodies now available to us:

Code navigation! The Ctrl+, keyboard shortcut to navigate to declarations, definitions, and files, is easily my most favorite tool here.

Refactoring tools! Visual Studio comes with a couple of functions that make refactoring much more painless.

Debugging! Visual Studio’s integrated debugger offers nifty features such as inspecting code, single-stepping, and hot-patching changed code. It is hard not to love having those options.

Profiling tools! These tools already helped identify a couple of bottlenecks.

It was far from easy to get to that point, and I cannot thank enough all the people involved with this effort, in particular Jeff Hostetler and Philip Oakley, for their tenacity and code contributions. Git for Windows already had a script to generate Visual Studio project definitions since 2009, with a recent effort to bring the script up-to-date and to fix Git’s source code to build correctly.

The official Git for Windows will still be built with GNU C (“GCC”), simply because you should never change a winning team. Oh, and the Git project itself uses GCC, too, hence we avoid battling unnecessary fights by sticking to GNU C for the official releases.

But it is really nice to have the option to simply clone, check out the vs/master branch, immediately start playing with the source code, and then run the test suite from a regular Git Bash (no Git for Windows SDK required).
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Source: Whats new in Git for Windows 2.11? | Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management

Prakhar_Khare · Jun 12, 2019

Ubuntu terminal not displaying git messages correctly

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand that the output for Ubuntu terminal is not showing properly for GIT commands.

I suggest you to try re-enabling Windows Subsystem for Linux and then uninstalling and re-installing Ubuntu from Microsoft Store. Follow the steps to disable Windows Subsystem for Linux and uninstall Ubuntu.

Disable Windows Subsystem for Linux:

Press Windows key + R. This will open
Run. Alternatively, you can go to Start and search for Run.

In Run dialog box, type
appwiz.cpl and hit enter.

Now on the left hand pane click on
Turn Windows features on or off.

Now on the Windows feature window scroll down and uncheck the box next to
Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Click on OK and Restart the PC.

Uninstall the Ubuntu app:

Go to Settings >
Apps > Apps & features.

Now search for Ubuntu app.

Click on the app and click on
Uninstall.

Follow the onscreen instructions.

To enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux you can refer the article

Windows Subsystem for Linux Installation Guide for Windows 10.

If the issue persists, I suggest you to post your query on

TechNet forums as they have dedicated support for issues related to Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Prakhar Khare

Microsoft Community – Moderator

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