# Wrong version of Git on your download website for windows

3 messages from 2014-02-17 to 2014-02-17. Participants: Dr. Torsten Thurow, brian m. carlson, Robert Dailey.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35897

## Dr. Torsten Thurow, 2014-02-17 15:45

Subject: Wrong version of Git on your download website for windows
Message-ID: <53022E90.90702@tum.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/53022E90.90702%40tum.de

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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

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Torsten Thurow

______________________________________________________________________

Dr. Ing. Torsten Thurow | computer scientist

Technische Universität München | Faculty of Architecture
Chair for Architectural Informatics | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzold
Arcisstr. 21 | 80333 Munich | Germany
fon: +49 (0) 89 289 22-184
fax: +49 (0) 89 289 22-179
email:  torsten.thurow@tum.de
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## brian m. carlson, 2014-02-17 16:05

Subject: Re: Wrong version of Git on your download website for windows
Message-ID: <20140217160540.GM4582@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20140217160540.GM4582%40vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net
In-Reply-To: <53022E90.90702@tum.de>

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Dr. Torsten Thurow wrote:
> 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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## Robert Dailey, 2014-02-17 16:17

Subject: Re: Wrong version of Git on your download website for windows
Message-ID: <CAHd499BK6r5ydvOYrNqtihu3dePgDrxBkp1-BcTWi+-LB_V-Hg@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAHd499BK6r5ydvOYrNqtihu3dePgDrxBkp1-BcTWi%2B-LB_V-Hg%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <53022E90.90702@tum.de>

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I looked into this and they seem to be deliberately holding off onto a
release due to some max path issues on Windows:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122

Also there are some unofficial builds for 1.8.5.4 I think, you just
have to Google for it.

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Dr. Torsten Thurow
<torsten.thurow@tum.de> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> Torsten Thurow
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Dr. Ing. Torsten Thurow | computer scientist
>
> Technische Universität München | Faculty of Architecture
> Chair for Architectural Informatics | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzold
> Arcisstr. 21 | 80333 Munich | Germany
> fon: +49 (0) 89 289 22-184
> fax: +49 (0) 89 289 22-179
> email:  torsten.thurow@tum.de
> web: www.ai.ar.tum.de
> ______________________________________________________________________
>

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