Announcing Git for Windows 2.5.3

Dear Git users,

it is my pleasure to announce that Git for Windows 2.5.3 can be downloaded from https://git-for-windows.github.io/.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who contributes to this project (and you will see below that there have been quite a few changes since release 2 of version 2.5.3 this past Sunday), in particular Matthias Aßhauer and @nalla for tireless testing and contributing patches.

Changes since Git-2.5.2(2) (September 13th 2015)

New Features

  • Comes with Git 2.5.3.
  • Includes git flow.
  • By configuring `git config core.editor notepad`, users can now use
    notepad.exe as their default editor. Configuring `git config
    format.commitMessageColumns 72` will be picked up by the notepad
    wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edited it.
  • The Subversion bindings for use with git svn were upgraded to
    version 1.9.1.
  • Some interactive console programs, e.g. psql.exe, now work in
    mintty thanks to pre-configured aliases.
  • The mechanism to diff .pdf, .doc and .docx files known from Git for
    Windows 1.x has been ported to Git for Windows 2.x.
  • Git can now access IPv6-only hosts via HTTP/HTTPS.

Bug fixes

  • The .vimrc in the home directory is now allowed to have DOS line
    endings.
  • The README.portable file of the portable Git mentions the need to
    run post-install.bat when the archive was extracted manually.
  • Home directories for user names with non-ASCII characters are
    handled correctly now.
  • The documentation no longer shows plain-text linkgit:... "links"
    but proper hyperlinks instead.
  • The mtab link is written to /etc/mtab again, as it should.
  • When run inside the PowerShell, Git no longer gets confused when
    the current directory's path and what is recorded in the file
    system differs in case (e.g. "GIT/" vs "Git/").

Ciao, Johannes