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Re: Wrong version of Git on your download website for windows

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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date
Feb 17, 2014, 16:05 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Dr. Torsten Thurow wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> many thanks for all your working. Git is a very good help tool. A
> smal bug is on your download website for windows. Here we can read:
> "Latest stable release 1.9.0 Release Notes (2014-02-14) Download for
> Windows", but the link loads Git-1.8.5.2.preview20131230.exe

Windows and Mac OS X binary builds are done by a different group and uploaded as they get the time, and as such, the version number is that of the source, not the binaries.

Also, the git-scm.com website is maintained by other people, not the Git project itself. The fact that that website has confusing information for binary builds is tracked in that site's issue #268: https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/268.

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