Git for Windows 2.5.1 is out

Dear Git (for Windows) users,

it is my pleasure to announce the release of Git for Windows 2.5.1. Apart from synchronizing with Git 2.5.1, the following bugs were fixed:

  • Backspace works now with ConHost-based (cmd.exe) terminal.
  • When there is a ~/.bashrc but no ~/.bash_profile, the latter will be
    created automatically.
  • When calling a non-login shell, the prompt now works.
  • The text in the installer describing the terminal emulator options is no
    longer cut off.
  • The connect.exe tool to allow SSH connections via HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxies
    is included in Git for Windows again, as it was in Git for Windows 1.x.
  • The LANG variable is no longer left unset (which caused troubles with vim).
  • `call start-ssh-agent` no longer spits out bogus lines.
  • It is now possible even behind NTLM-authenticated proxies to install Git
    for Windows' SDK.
  • We can handle the situation now when the first $PATH elements point outside
    of Git for Windows' bin/ directories and contain .dll files that interfere
    with our own (e.g. PostgreSQL's libintl-8.dll).
  • The patch tool is now included again as it was in Git for Windows 1.x.

Ciao, Johannes