Git for Windows 2.6.0

Changes since Git for Windows 2.5.3 (September 18th 2015)

New Features

  • Comes with Git 2.6.0
  • The WhoUses.exe tool to determine which process holds a lock on a
    given file (which was shipped with Git for Windows 1.x) gets
    installed alongside Git for Windows again.
  • The values CurrentVersion, InstallPath and LibexecPath are added to
    the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GitForWindows registry key to help
    third-party add-ons to find us.
  • When fetching or pushing with Git without a console, we now fall
    back to Git GUI's askpass helper to ask for pass phrases.
  • When run through <INSTALL_PATH>\cmd\git.exe, Git will find tools in
    $HOME/bin now.

Bug Fixes

  • The portable version avoids DLL search path problems even when
    installed into a FAT filesystem.
  • Configuring notepad as editor without configuring a width for
    commit messages no longer triggers an error message.
  • When using Windows' default console for Git Bash, the .sh file
    associations work again.
  • Portable Git's README is now clearer about the need to run
    post-install.bat when unpacking manually.
  • We use the winpty trick now to run ipython interactively, too.
  • When the environment variable HOME is not set, we now fall back
    correctly to use HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.
  • The home directory is now set correctly when running as the SYSTEM
    user.
  • The environment variable GIT_WORK_TREE may now differ in lower/
    upper case with the Git's idea of the current working directory.
  • Running git clone --dissociate ... no longer locks the pack files
    during the repacking phase.
  • Upstream cURL fixes for NTLM proxy issues ("Unknown SSL error")
    were backported.

Git 2.6

Changes since Git-2.5.2(2) (September 13th 2015)

New Features

  • Comes with Git 2.5.3.
  • Includes git flow.
  • By configuring git config core.editor notepad, users can now use
    notepad.exe as their default editor. Configuring git config
    format.commitMessageColumns 72 will be picked up by the notepad
    wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edited it.
  • The Subversion bindings for use with git svn were upgraded to
    version 1.9.1.
  • Some interactive console programs, e.g. psql.exe, now work in
    mintty thanks to pre-configured aliases.
  • The mechanism to diff .pdf, .doc and .docx files known from Git for
    Windows 1.x has been ported to Git for Windows 2.x.
  • Git can now access IPv6-only hosts via HTTP/HTTPS.

Bug fixes

  • The .vimrc in the home directory is now allowed to have DOS line
    endings.
  • The README.portable file of the portable Git mentions the need to
    run post-install.bat when the archive was extracted manually.
  • Home directories for user names with non-ASCII characters are
    handled correctly now.
  • The documentation no longer shows plain-text linkgit:... "links"
    but proper hyperlinks instead.
  • When run inside the PowerShell, Git no longer gets confused when
    the current directory's path and what is recorded in the file
    system differs in case (e.g. "GIT/" vs "Git/").

Git 2.5.3

Git for Windows 2.5.2 (Release 2)

The following bugs were fixed since Git for Windows 2.5.2:

  • The Git GUI can be launched from the Start menu again.

  • It now works to call git add -p -- . when there is a large number of
    files.

  • The Arrow keys can be used in the Bash history again when run in the
    Windows console.

  • Tab completion in the context of a large Active Directory is no longer
    slow.

Git for Windows 2.5.2

The changes since Git for Windows 2.5.1 are:

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 2.5.2

Git for Windows 2.5.1

In addition to synchronizing with Git 2.5.1, this release also contains
the following bug fixes:

* Backspace works 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`).

Git for Windows 2.5.0

Apart from synchronizing with Git 2.5.0, this version brings the
following changes:

- On Windows 7 and later, the *Git Bash* can now correctly be pinned to
  the task bar.

- The size of the installers was reduced again, almost to the levels of
  Git for Windows 1.x.

- Under certain circumstances, when the Windows machine is part of a
  Windows domain with lots of users, the startup of the *Git Bash* is
  now faster.

- Git no longer warns about being unable to read bogus Git attributes.

Git 2.5