[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.49.0

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 17, 2025, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID: <1MSbxD-1tn8ja1MCn-00W0XL@mail.gmx.net>

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.49.0 is available from:

    https://gitforwindows.org/

Changes since Git for Windows v2.48.1 (February 13th 2025)

Due to persistent maintenance challenges and the community's limited engagement and usage, git svn support in Git for Windows will be phased out over the next few months.

Git for Windows v2.48.1 was the last version to ship with the i686 ("32-bit") variant of the installer, portable Git and archive. Only 32-bit MinGit will be built for future versions, until April 2029.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.49.0.
  * Comes with OpenSSH v9.9.P2.
  * Comes with PCRE2 v10.45.
  * The previously-experimental --full-name-hash option has been
    accepted into upstream Git as --name-hash-version=2 and is no
    longer experimental.
  * The git backfill command has been accepted into upstream Git; Its
    --batch-size=<n> option has been renamed to --min-batch-size=<n>,
    though.

Bug Fixes

  * A change in upstream Git v2.48.0 broke renaming symlinks, which was
    fixed.
  * On a recent Insider Windows version, users experienced the message:
    "Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer", which has been
    fixed.
  * A bug has been fixed that, when calling git add -p from VS Code's
    internal terminal, after using the edit command, caused the
    internal terminal got stuck and no further command was accepted.
  * The syntax highlighting of the nano editor was recently disabled in
    Git for Windows by mistake, which was fixed.

Git-2.49.0-64-bit.exe | 726056328967f242fe6e9afbfe7823903a928aff577dcf6f517f2fb6da6ce83c Git-2.49.0-arm64.exe | 490ea5c2a1cb3ca4071079e262d1cba9331252cad1b76f9df1e89f04a09e761b PortableGit-2.49.0-64-bit.7z.exe | bc980a64e875304ea5aa88386fda37e8a0089d0f2023616b9995b1ca75b471dd PortableGit-2.49.0-arm64.7z.exe | 8fa7e49b319b1109173a90a110aaeb0e9004600ff2ed44adc7dfe56ab21e4148 MinGit-2.49.0-64-bit.zip | 971cdee7c0feaa1e41369c46da88d1000a24e79a6f50191c820100338fb7eca5 MinGit-2.49.0-arm64.zip | 847bbe519443cd24c716f490a769056a35f42474cafb757663e1dceca159e911 MinGit-2.49.0-32-bit.zip | 6d6439436d537624f619ffbf5dba49bcdc4ee1219c5c2756277669928fba2b74 MinGit-2.49.0-busybox-64-bit.zip | 600d27b4ed7d86f9bc908c3e6563cfdd14f746dee1e91d5f714bfc9e7472cfb1 MinGit-2.49.0-busybox-32-bit.zip | a6f1b25a1c910381b0886ff37baa3d77d3b662e0a54114ca19244a3f3e9381b6 Git-2.49.0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 6c5d66e3dd6cd44e50ba7892e9e24ace57934f277a3424c9702a400b3fedc1eb Git-2.49.0-arm64.tar.bz2 | 48109aaccc5387df498c6b91e5f25c27201dac80b62cae3c576d922b3129a66e

Ciao, Johannes