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Git-1.9.5-preview20150319

9 years ago

PLEASE NOTE: Git for Windows 1.x is deprecated, superseded by Git for Windows 2.x.

New Features

  • Comes with Git 1.9.5 plus Windows-specific patches.
  • Make vimdiff usable with git mergetool.

Security Updates

  • Mingw-openssl to 0.9.8zf and msys-openssl to 1.0.1m
  • Bash to 3.1.23(6)
  • Curl to 7.41.0

Bugfixes

  • ssh-agent: only ask for password if not already loaded
  • Reenable perl debugging ("perl -de 1" possible again)
  • Set icon background color for Windows 8 tiles
  • poll: honor the timeout on Win32
  • For git.exe alone, use the same HOME directory fallback mechanism as /etc/profile

Git-1.9.5-preview20141217

9 years ago

New Features

  • Comes with Git 1.9.5 plus Windows-specific patches.

Bugfixes

  • Safeguards against bogus file names on NTFS (CVE-2014-9390).

Git-1.9.4-preview20140929

9 years ago

New Features

  • Comes with Git 1.9.4 plus Windows-specific patches.

Bugfixes

  • Update bash to patchlevel 3.1.20(4) (msysgit/msysgit#254, msysgit/msysgit#253). Fixes CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186 and CVE-2014-7187.
  • gitk.cmd now works when paths contain the ampersand (&) symbol (msysgit/msysgit#252)
  • Default to automatically close and restart applications in silent mode installation type
  • Git svn is now usable again (regression in previous update, msysgit/msysgit#245)

Git-1.9.4-preview20140815

9 years ago

New Features

  • Comes with Git 1.9.4 plus Windows-specific patches
  • Add vimtutor (msysgit PR #220)
  • Update OpenSSH to 6.6.1p1 and its OpenSSL to 1.0.1i (msysgit PR #221, #223, #224, #226, #229, #234, #236)
  • Update mingw OpenSSL to 0.9.8zb (msysgit PR #241, #242)

Bugfixes

  • Checkout problem with directories exceeding MAX_PATH (PR msysgit/git#212, msysgit #227)
  • Backport a webdav fix from junio/maint (d9037e http-push.c: make CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA a usable pointer, PR msysgit/git#230)

Regressions

  • git svn is/might be broken (unless you use Vagrant). Fixes welcome.

Git-1.9.4-preview20140611

9 years ago

New Features

  • Comes with Git 1.9.4 plus Windows-specific patches.

Bugfixes

  • Upgrade openssl to 0.9.8za (msysgit/msysgit#212)
  • Config option to disable side-band-64k for transport (msysgit/git#101)
  • Make git-http-backend, git-http-push, git-http-fetch available again (msysgit/git#174)

Git-1.9.2-preview20140411

10 years ago

New Features

  • Comes with Git 1.9.2 plus Windows-specific patches.
  • Custom installer settings can be saved and loaded, for unsupervised installation on batches of machines (#168).
  • Comes with VIM 7.4 (#170).
  • Comes with ZLib 1.2.8.
  • Comes with xargs 4.4.2.

Bugfixes

  • Work around stack limitations when listing an insane number of tags (PR #154).
  • Assorted test fixes (PRs msysgit/git#156, msysgit/git#158).
  • Compile warning fix in config.c (PR msysgit/git#159).
  • Ships with actual dos2unix and unix2dos.
  • The installer no longer recommends mixing with Cygwin.
  • Fixes a regression in Git-Cheetah which froze the Explorer upon calling Git Bash from the context menu (Git-Cheetah PRs msysgit/Git-Cheetah#14 and msysgit/Git-Cheetah#15).

Git-1.9.0-preview20140217

10 years ago

New Features:

  • Comes with Git 1.9.0 plus Windows-specific patches.
  • Better work-arounds for Windows-specific path length limitations (pull request #122).
  • Uses optimized TortoiseGitPLink when detected (msysGit pull request #154).
  • Allow Windows users to use Linux Git on their files, using Vagrant http://www.vagrantup.com/ (msysGit pull request #159).
  • InnoSetup 5.5.4 is now used to generate the installer (msysGit pull request #167).

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed regression with interactive password prompt for remotes using the HTTPS protocol (issue #111).
  • We now work around Subversion servers printing non-ISO-8601-compliant time stamps (pull request #126).
  • The installer no longer sets the HOME environment variable (msysGit pull request #166).
  • Perl no longer creates empty sys$command files when no stdin is connected (msysGit pull request #152).

Git-1.8.5.2-preview20131230

10 years ago

New Features:

  • Comes with Git 1.8.5.2 plus Windows-specific patches.
  • Windows-specific patches are now grouped into pseudo-branches which should make future development robust despite slow uptake of the Windows-specific patches by upstream git.git.
  • Works around more path length limitations (pull request #86).
  • Has an optional stat() cache toggled via core.fscache (pull request #107).

Bugfixes:

  • Lots of installer fixes.
  • git-cmd: Handle home directory on a different drive correctly (pull request #146).
  • git-cmd: add a helper to work with the ssh agent (pull request #135).
  • Git-Cheetah: prevent duplicate menu entries (pull request #7).
  • No longer replaces dos2unix with hd2u (a more powerful, but slightly incompatible version of dos2unix).

Git-1.7.7-preview20111014

10 years ago

New Features:

  • Comes with Git 1.7.7 plus patches.
  • Updated gzip/gunzip and include unzip and gvim.
  • Primary repositories moved to github.com at http://github.com/msysgit/.

Bugfixes:

  • Please refer to the release notes for official Git 1.7.7.
  • Re-enable vim highlighting.
  • Fixed issue with libiconv/libiconv-2 location.
  • Fixed regressions in Git Bash script.
  • Fixed installation of mergetools for difftool and mergetool use and launching of beyond compare on windows.
  • Fixed warning about mising hostname during git fetch.

Git-1.7.7.1-preview20111027

10 years ago

New Features:

  • Comes with Git 1.7.7.1 plus patches.

Bugfixes:

  • Please refer to the release notes for official Git 1.7.7.1
  • Includes an important upstream fix for a bug that sometimes corrupts the git index file.