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A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches.

25 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 5 stories, 20 comments · first 2015-07-28 · latest 2024-10-27

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  1. …that's considered. Look at the commit message on the first commit in the `--full-name-hash` PR: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/5157/commits/d5c... Excerpt: "/CHANGELOG.json" is 15 characters, and is created by the beachball…
    comment by js2 · 2024-10-27 · in We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
  2. …which in turn is built on top of Cygwin. you can get native Windows Git as well. its called MinGit: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/MinGit
    comment by 38 · 2023-08-29 · in Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness
  3. Or not: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3883
    comment by lostmsu · 2022-08-23 · in SSH commit verification now supported
  4. Signing using SSH keys does not work reliably on Windows: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3883
    comment by lostmsu · 2022-08-23 · in SSH commit verification now supported
  5. ▲ 1
    Git for Windows: Windows User Groups not counted for new ownership rules
    story by olvy0 · 2022-06-07 · 0 comments
  6. …The Git Development Community Publisher Url: https://gitforwindows.org Publisher Support Url: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues Author: Johannes Schindelin Moniker: git Description: Git for Windows focuses on offering a…
    comment by dgellow · 2022-04-13 · in Git security vulnerability announced
  7. …symlink emulation support is only turned on by default when that scenario is detected. [1]: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links
    comment by matheust · 2021-03-10 · in Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
  8. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2674#issuecomm...
    comment by aeonsky · 2020-06-16 · in GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
  9. …and then shut down. It looks like a massacre now (scroll all the way down to see the massacre): https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2674
    comment by jansan · 2020-06-15 · in GitHub renaming default branch to “main”
  10. ▲ 33
    Discussion on renaming master branch gets heated, then shut down
    story by jansan · 2020-06-15 · 53 comments
  11. …told it might be triggering for folks in financial trouble? I don't actually have an opinion myself https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2674#issuecomm... You can't make this shit up
    comment by haunter · 2020-06-15 · in GitHub to Remove 'Master' Terminology
  12. ▲ 2
    Git for Windows: Change non-inclusive naming
    story by drevil-v2 · 2020-06-15 · 1 comment
  13. ▲ 1
    Changing non-inclusive naming on Git for Windows
    story by catacombs · 2020-06-11 · 2 comments
  14. …directly from there (git-scm.com eventually links to the releases published on GitHub anyway). [0] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases.atom Edit: The Git 2.17.1.2 Chocolatey package has now been approved…
    comment by runesoerensen · 2018-05-30 · in A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
  15. …[1] Not sure why the erroneous releases haven't been removed? Seems a bit confusing. [0] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.17.1.... [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.17.1....
    comment by runesoerensen · 2018-05-29 · in A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
  16. …and doesn't truly support them (although it might be able to do so in the future). More info here: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1195
    comment by corford · 2017-10-27 · in Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant
  17. There is now a 2.14.0.2 for Windows which fixes an issue with SSH. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.14.0....
    comment by pjholmes · 2017-08-07 · in Git v2.14.0 released
  18. The GitHub page seems to have `MinGit` releases : https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/latest
    comment by speps · 2017-05-10 · in Git 2.13
  19. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Package-manageme... Git for Windows uses this project.
    comment by barrkel · 2016-03-03 · in MSYS2: Arch Linux on Microsoft Windows
  20. +1 for MSYS2 because of pacman package manager. also Git for Windows is using MSYS2 https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Package-manageme...
    comment by maykr · 2015-10-14 · in Babun: a Windows shell
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    Git for Windows 2.5.0
    story by chadly · 2015-08-18 · 13 comments
  22. Also see https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/244 for a bit more on their release / reasoning.
    comment by joshka · 2015-07-29 · in Git 2.5.0
  23. …like everything should work fine v1 bundled in a single zip until each component is split out. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/15
    comment by electricEmu · 2015-07-29 · in Git 2.5.0
  24. …if you're feeling adventurous. https://github.com/msysgit/ https://github.com/git-for-windows/ https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases
    comment by papercrane · 2015-07-28 · in Git 2.5.0
  25. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases I use Git 2.4.3 on Windows. (Using Msysgit.)
    comment by cool-RR · 2015-07-28 · in Git 2.5.0