Git for Windows 2.5.2

Changes since Git-2.5.1 (August 31th 2015)

New Features

• Comes with Git 2.5.2
• Alternates can now point to UNC paths, i.e. network drives.

Bug fixes

• The MSys2 runtime was taught not to look hard for groups, speeding up Git Bash's startup time.
• A work around was added for issues when installing 32-bit Git for Windows on 64-bit Windows 10.
• The installer no longer freezes when there are interactive commands in the user's .profile.
• git rebase --skip was speeded up again.
• The redirector in /bin/bash.exe now adjusts the PATH environment variable correctly (i.e. so that Git's executables are found) before launching the real Bash, even when called without --login.
• When installing Git for Windows to a location whose path is longer than usual, Git commands no longer trigger occasional Bad address errors.
• Git no longer asks for a DVD to be inserted again when one has been ejected from the D: drive.

Git for Windows 2.5.1

Apart from being based on Git 2.5.1, this Git for Windows release brings the following bug fixes:

• Backspace works now with
  ConHost-based (cmd.exe) terminal.
• When there is a ~/.bashrc but no ~/.bash_profile, the latter will be created automatically.
• When calling a non-login shell, the prompt now works.
• The text in the installer describing the terminal emulator options is no longer cut off.
• The connect.exe tool to allow SSH connections via HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxies is included in Git for Windows again, as it was in Git for Windows 1.x.
• The LANG variable is no longer left unset (which caused troubles with vim).
• call start-ssh-agent no longer spits out bogus lines.
• It is now possible even behind NTLM-authenticated proxies to install Git for Windows' SDK.
• We can handle the situation now when the first $PATH elements point outside of Git for Windows' bin/ directories and contain .dll files that interfere with our own (e.g. PostgreSQL's libintl-8.dll).
• The patch tool is now included again as it was in Git for Windows 1.x.

Git for Windows 2.5.0

This is the first official version of Git for Windows (i.e. the first release without the -preview suffix).

It would not have been possible without substantial support of GitHub, in particular Michael Haggerty, Jeff King and Brendan Forster, the help of Karsten Blees, Nalla, Sebastian Schuberth, and other contributors including Microsoft.

Fifth release candidate of Git for Windows

Apart from synchronizing with Git 2.4.6, this version brings the following fixes:

• Git for Windows handles symlinks now, even if core.symlinks does not tell Git to generate symlinks itself.
• git svn learned not to reuse incompatible on-disk caches left over from previous Git for Windows versions.

Fourth release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x

Apart from synchronizing with Git 2.4.5, this release candidate fixes a critical bug that prevented GitHub for Windows from using Git for Windows 2.x for its command-line tools.

Third release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x

New Features

• Comes with Git 2.4.4
• The POSIX-to-Windows path mangling can now be turned off by setting the MSYS_NO_PATHCONV environment variable. This even works for individual command lines: MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 cmd /c dir /x will list the files in the current directory along with their 8.3 versions.

Bug fixes

• git-bash.exe no longer changes the working directory to the user's home directory.
• Git can now clone into a drive root, e.g. C:\.
• For backwards-compatibility, redirectors are installed into /bin/bash.exe and /bin/git.exe, e.g. to support SourceTree and TortoiseGit better.
• When using core.symlinks = true while cloning repositories with symbolic links pointing to directories, git status no longer shows bogus modifications.

Second release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x

This is the second release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x, based on Git 2.4.3.

Please see the release notes for details.

First release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x

This is the first release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x.

It is available in four different versions: 32-bit & 64-bit, regular and portable application. If in doubt, try the regular 64-bit version.

Please give this release candidate a thorough workout and report bugs at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues.

v2.4.1.windows.1: Git for Windows 2.4.1

Relative to Git for Windows 2.4.0 release 2, the following changed:

- improved support for console windows other than the default Windows
  console window (`git push https://` can ask interactively for a
  password again)

v2.4.0.windows.2: Git for Windows 2.4.0 release 2

Since 2.4.0 release 1, the following bugs were fixed:

- `git pull` prompts for a password correctly in MinTTY

- `git blame` can now deal with CRLF better

- Git for Windows' `git-bash.exe` can be asked to show a console
  explicitly