Dear Git (for Windows) users, it is my great pleasure to announce the first official version of Git for Windows. We finally have caught up with Git 2.x and are ready to leave the -preview suffix behind (more on that below). It is available at https://git-for-windows.github.io/ and also at https://git-scm.com/. So how does that affect you? - The biggest benefit is that we finally have a 64-bit Git for Windows. This not only makes a huge difference with large repositories; It also avoids some bugs (if you are interested in technical details, please have a look at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/32-bit-issues). - Another huge benefit is that we benefit from (and contribute to) the very active MSys2 community; MSys2 is a minimal POSIX system (forked from Cygwin) that sports a package manager and many packages that are kept up-to-date. - As a consequence of basing Git for Windows on MSys2's packages, Git for Windows now comes with up-to-date versions of Bash and OpenSSL. Oh, and we finally have support in `git svn` for recent Subversion features! - Since there were not many users of Git Cheetah, the Explorer extension similar to TortoiseSVN, and since there is the actively maintained TortoiseGit, Git for Windows dropped support for Git Cheetah. - Git for Windows will be maintained more actively from now on, following Git development more closely. And of course, contributions are welcome! - GitHub for Windows is slated to integrate this new version soon and will continue to follow Git for Windows' development closely. I probably forgot to mention some really important improvements, so feel free to point them out as replies to this mail. Work on upgrading Git for Windows to use MSys2 and follow Git 2.x has been a lot of work that has been going on since the end of January. 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. The maintenance of Git for Windows is supported by Microsoft from now on. I would like to take the opportunity to thank above-mentioned developers and companies: this is your release just as much as it is mine. Ciao, Johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html