[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.28.0-rc0

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.28.0-rc0 is available from:

    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.28.0-rc0.windows.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.27.0 (June 1st 2020)

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.28.0-rc0.
  * Comes with subversion v1.14.0.
  * Comes with MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin
    3.1.5.
  * Comes with the designated successor of Git Credential Manager for
    Windows (GCM for Windows), the cross-platform Git Credential
    Manager Core. For now, this is opt-in, with the idea of eventually
    retiring GCM for Windows.
  * Comes with cURL v7.71.1.
  * Comes with Perl v5.32.0.
  * Comes with MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin
    3.1.6.
  * Comes with GNU Privacy Guard v2.2.21.

Bug Fixes

  * A typo was fixed in the installer.
  * The new git pull behavior option now records the fast-forward
    choice correctly.
  * In v2.27.0, git svn was broken completely, which has been fixed.
  * Some Git operations could end up with bogus modified symbolic links
    (where git status would report changes but git diff would not),
    which is now fixed.
  * When reinstalling (or upgrading) Git for Windows, the "Pseudo
    Console Support" choice is now remembered correctly.
  * Under certain circumstances, the Git Bash window (MinTTY) would
    crash frequently, which has been addressed.
  * When pseudo console support is enabled, the VIM editor sometimes
    had troubles accepting certain keystrokes, which was fixed.
  * Due to a bug, it was not possible to disable Pseudo Console support
    by reinstalling with the checkbox turned off, which has been fixed.
  * A bug with enabled Pseudo Console support, where git add -i would
    not quit the file selection mode upon an empty input, has been
    fixed.
  * The cleanup mode called "scissors" in git commit now handles CR/LF
    line endings correctly.
  * When cloning into an existing directory, under certain
    circumstances, the core.worktree option was set unnecessarily. This
    has been fixed.

Git-2.28.0-rc0-64-bit.exe | 11373dd9d740ede0e5f54776eddb1591578fc5917422d656187e9b37b3960b94 Git-2.28.0-rc0-32-bit.exe | b238446edfee249c59c57143cfd69baf83d8bdedda31c5e93fd4b9092bf41cbb PortableGit-2.28.0-rc0-64-bit.7z.exe | 8d09850454bf8812c944b746ebcdaa86489c3f843f19d64bf23caeaac7572b2a PortableGit-2.28.0-rc0-32-bit.7z.exe | ad4c123c88a0789c00a8a825022a6eb850ce1292b5f3d17b6f9445d81a819474 MinGit-2.28.0-rc0-64-bit.zip | cae926ba5e2d2ed5a09bb0ea78470f856800ed62b7c330e4bab89b0044724762 MinGit-2.28.0-rc0-32-bit.zip | 80c7b58d1ad819de3d9d4aa95624c4ec2880d3d19b74b41969b34e905d245b40 MinGit-2.28.0-rc0-busybox-64-bit.zip | 0a0ef355a90d31c57bfed86547306076e7a825eb21e325990687e1d030c50c8c MinGit-2.28.0-rc0-busybox-32-bit.zip | 097a3cc7d70345fea42ab4801d438b882a5e1cf5d8431e00f52af7569acd6e27 Git-2.28.0-rc0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 220bf0b98bedaf9ef5710a40c5d7ab13c0c979760971332221d38255f3ad8e92 Git-2.28.0-rc0-32-bit.tar.bz2 | e97222bae9c5a4736b9a28a8812917a9a20c160786c0ec624dde3037db0568c5

Ciao, Johannes

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 6:59 AM Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

We've added 2.28.0-rc0 to Bitbucket Server's test matrix for both Linux and Windows, with all tests green. We've also done a manual test pass on macOS, also without issues.

Thanks again for these early RCs!

Best regards, Bryan Turner

Hi Bryan,

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, Bryan Turner wrote:

Thank you for testing!

Of course!

I hope that v2.28.0 will be a bit less bumpy than v2.27.0: Git for Windows v2.27.0 shipped with mismatching Perl/Subversion, so that `git svn` was completely unusable. Yet, the most reported bug (and to me it looks like it is the best-reported Git for Windows so far, since the project's inception) was the typo `fast-forard` in the installer. It has been independently reported well over a dozen times, via at least four different channels.

Just a quick note: I will be offline for most of the next three weeks, but my colleague Dr Derrick Stolee kindly agreed to prepare the -rc1, -rc2 and final versions. For technical reasons, the announcement mails will still be going out under my name, though.

Ciao, Dscho

Hi Johannes,

On 10 ஜூலை, 2020 7:29:35 PM IST, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

Thanks. I just installed it in my local machine and it seems to work fine for me.

The above has "Comes with MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin ..." for both 3.1.5 and 3.1.6. I wonder if it really comes with two MSYS2 runtimes.

Hi Kaartic,

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote:

You're right, of course ;-) For the resolution of this story, see: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2746

Ciao, Dscho