{"thread":{"id":"40454","subject":"Announcing Git for Windows 2.6.0","startedAt":"2015-09-29T21:03:28Z","lastAt":"2015-09-29T21:03:28Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"270922","messageId":"3dba113ea1ed82a6e5e745a3d69dceaa@dscho.org","threadId":"40454","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Announcing Git for Windows 2.6.0","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2015-09-29T21:03:28Z","receivedAt":"2015-09-29T21:03:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Dear Git users,\n\nit is my pleasure to announce that Git for Windows 2.6.0 is available (see https://git-for-windows.github.io/ for details and download links).\n\nThank you, contributors!\n\nChanges since Git for Windows 2.5.3 (September 18th 2015)\n\nNew Features\n\n  • Comes with Git 2.6.0\n  • The WhoUses.exe tool to determine which process holds a lock on a\n    given file (which was shipped with Git for Windows 1.x) gets\n    installed alongside Git for Windows again.\n  • The values CurrentVersion, InstallPath and LibexecPath are added to\n    the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\GitForWindows registry key to help\n    third-party add-ons to find us.\n  • When fetching or pushing with Git without a console, we now fall\n    back to Git GUI's askpass helper to ask for pass phrases.\n  • When run through <INSTALL_PATH>\\cmd\\git.exe, Git will find tools in\n    $HOME/bin now.\n\nBug Fixes\n\n  • The portable version avoids DLL search path problems even when\n    installed into a FAT filesystem.\n  • Configuring notepad as editor without configuring a width for\n    commit messages no longer triggers an error message.\n  • When using Windows' default console for Git Bash, the .sh file\n    associations work again.\n  • Portable Git's README is now clearer about the need to run\n    post-install.bat when unpacking manually.\n  • We use the winpty trick now to run ipython interactively, too.\n  • When the environment variable HOME is not set, we now fall back\n    correctly to use HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.\n  • The home directory is now set correctly when running as the SYSTEM\n    user.\n  • The environment variable GIT_WORK_TREE may now differ in lower/\n    upper case with the Git's idea of the current working directory.\n  • Running git clone --dissociate ... no longer locks the pack files\n    during the repacking phase.\n  • Upstream cURL fixes for NTLM proxy issues (\"Unknown SSL error\")\n    were backported.\n\nCiao,\nJohannes\n"}]}