[ANNOUNCE] WinGit - native x86/x64 Git for Windows

I'm proud to announce WinGit: an attempt to bring Git powers to 64-bit Windows.

WinGit is currently used only by my coworkers and isn't considered production-ready-rock-solid. Use at your own risk.

Homepage & build instructions ----------------------------- https://github.com/slonopotamus/wingit

Binaries -------- MSI packages: https://github.com/slonopotamus/wingit/releases

After installation, git.exe is ready to be used from cmd.exe or TortoiseGit. No kind of "Git Bash" or own explorer integration is provided.

Issues ------ Of course WinGit has issues: https://github.com/slonopotamus/wingit/issues?state=open

Most notable are: git documentation is not packaged, no Tcl/Tk (thus, no gitk), no SVN, no Explorer integration.

Sources ------------------

All sources are available on GitHub: https://github.com/slonopotamus/wingit

I know that build.sh is UGLY, especially openssl part.

Relationship with msysgit =========================

Unlike msysgit, WinGit is a pure-Windows binary build with MSVC.

Like msysgit, WinGit also uses msys environment (sh/perl/etc) both during build-time and runtime.

WinGit adds a few patches to Git itself on top of msysgit ones. Patches are required due to insufficient testing of MSVC builds (caused by total absence of any MSVC-built Git distributions).

All WinGit patches are sent upstream, just didn't get to master yet.