Re: Hello question on Git for Windows 2.43.0 - GUID and/or SWID tag for this title

From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>
Date: Feb 16, 2024, 12:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20240216125616.l3iktxfx24vy4jax@carbon>
In-Reply-To: <LV8PR13MB65609D60ACB8A6EADFBFE3459C4D2@LV8PR13MB6560.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

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> Therefore, please let me know what your role is with Git for Windows so I
> can send this feedback accordingly and continue working on with our software
> inventory vendor on the issue.

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> So, I would recommend to ask on GfW's Github Discussions [2] or on the
> GfW's dedicated mailing list [3].

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>  2. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/discussions
>  3. https://groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows/

To make things maybe a bit more clear: this very list our discussion is taking place is dedicated to the development of the "core" Git, and Git-for-Windows has started years ago as what one would call a continuous friendly fork of Git. May changes implemented in GfW get upstreamed into the "core" Git, but GfW still maintains a set of patches atop of Git, as well as a hefty amount of infrastructure code (because in order to properly function under Windows, Git requires lots of supporting software which presence is taken for granted on Unix-like systems but does not normally exist on Windows). Maintaining a Windows installer binary is also a task.

In other words, GfW has quite specific requirements to still be a separate, though very close, project, and because of this is has its own separate supporting infrastructure: a project and issue tracker on Github and its own communication venues. These venues are what I and someone other earlier in this discussion have pointed you at.