[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0

Johannes Schindelin· Oct 6, 2020, 09:25 UTC · lore

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0 is available from:

    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.29.0-rc0.windows.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.28.0 (July 28th 2020)

This version upgrades existing users of Git Credential Manager for Windows (which was just deprecated) to Git Credential Manager Core ("GCM Core", which is the designated successor of the former). This is necessary because GitHub deprecated password-based authentication and intends to remove support for it soon, and GCM Core is prepared for this change.

Also, the option to override the branch name used by git init for the initial branch is now featured prominently in the installer.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.29.0-rc0.
  * Comes with cURL v7.72.0.
  * Comes with MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin
    3.1.7.
  * Comes with Git LFS v2.12.0.
  * Comes with GNU Privacy Guard v2.2.23.
  * Comes with OpenSSL v1.1.1h.
  * Comes with libcbor v0.8.0.
  * Comes with libfido2 v1.5.0.
  * Comes with OpenSSH v8.4p1.
  * Comes with Git Credential Manager Core v2.0.252.766.
  * Existing Git Credential Manager for Windows users are now
    automatically upgraded to Git Credential Manager Core.
  * Git for Windows' installer learned to let users override the
    default branch used by git init.
  * The installer size was reduced by dropping a couple unneeded .dll
    files.

Bug Fixes

  * The credential helper selector (used as default credential helper
    in the Portable Git) now persists the users choice correctly again.
  * The full command-lines of MSYS2 processes (such as cp.exe) spawned
    from Git's Bash can now be seen in sysmon, wmic etc by default.
  * A bug preventing Unicode characters from being used in the window
    title of Git Bash was fixed.
  * OpenSSH was patched to no longer warn about an "invalid format"
    when private and public keys are stored separately.
  * Non-ASCII output of paged Git commands is now rendered correctly in
    Windows Terminal.
  * It is now possible to use wordpad.exe as Git's editor of choice.
  * When using Git via the "Run As..." function, it now uses the
    correct home directory.

Git-2.29.0-rc0-64-bit.exe | 97de20d56d3dedb48cb04a2bda94a75430bc2f3c358b163d77e1f979ebd33a41 Git-2.29.0-rc0-32-bit.exe | 043650a6634f6fd1b947efb2cabc64635868da154110b2d79a43e485beca9f3b PortableGit-2.29.0-rc0-64-bit.7z.exe | 8f58fbc208d8ca3d38d607bd8a4d19a9cce50cf92ec218fcb9ded1cfd2c0a11c PortableGit-2.29.0-rc0-32-bit.7z.exe | eace70204033b2245ee3715b005c091c9cc15646ec59caaac897f2de9286c507 MinGit-2.29.0-rc0-64-bit.zip | b1b0cdb51c291ad027ee244ac85d7855d1f206d80f8f916d8b36296c388a787e MinGit-2.29.0-rc0-32-bit.zip | 5e422854824655063481e4d50b9a5d0b15811ca05fa0c034e0f9f22a03e6a915 MinGit-2.29.0-rc0-busybox-64-bit.zip | 1b3102b4fdf511f3008d3b0240faf8ef69a9670c2c2aac961a069753466acb77 MinGit-2.29.0-rc0-busybox-32-bit.zip | a8dbd4bc2b9959ba9fe0d35427084d2ff3fb32bf2f919cebfa25f4ef0efcc46c Git-2.29.0-rc0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 9f094b1caa7265253a221c1dcfe3f6ba386da6bd667216e33146db0ca7564bfe Git-2.29.0-rc0-32-bit.tar.bz2 | 1c8f50b176a82fe1d6018fda7b2c15a4ae7a8cd0036fdada88595c39a9bc7bba

Ciao, Johannes

Johannes Schindelin· Oct 7, 2020, 21:05 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0 is available from:
>
>     https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.29.0-rc0.windows.1
>
> Changes since Git for Windows v2.28.0 (July 28th 2020)
>
> This version upgrades existing users of Git Credential Manager for
> Windows (which was just deprecated) to Git Credential Manager Core
> ("GCM Core", which is the designated successor of the former). This is
> necessary because GitHub deprecated password-based authentication and
> intends to remove support for it soon, and GCM Core is prepared for
> this change.

Please note that due to several bugs, this auto-upgrading GCM(W) users to GCM Core did _not_ work (you can verify whether it worked by running `git config --system credential.helper`; if it shows `manager`, the auto-upgrade did _not_ work, if it shows `manager-core`, it _did_ work).

The latest snapshot at https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html should fix this issue.

I briefly considered publishing a Git for Windows v2.29.0-rc0(2), but -rc1 is likely to get out on Friday (i.e. only two days from now), which should still give us plenty of time to ask for thorough testing before v2.29.0 final.

Thank you, Johannes

Bryan Turner· Oct 7, 2020, 21:45 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: [git-for-windows] [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 2:25 AM Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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>
> Dear Git users,
>
> I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0 is available from:
>
>     https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.29.0-rc0.windows.1

We've added Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0 to Bitbucket Server's test matrix. No test failures to report.

Best regards, Bryan Turner

Johannes Schindelin· Oct 8, 2020, 08:55 UTC · re: Bryan Turner · lore

Re: [git-for-windows] [ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0

Hi Bryan,

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, Bryan Turner wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 2:25 AM Johannes Schindelin
> <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Git users,
> >
> > I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0 is available from:
> >
> >     https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.29.0-rc0.windows.1
>
> We've added Git for Windows 2.29.0-rc0 to Bitbucket Server's test
> matrix. No test failures to report.

Thank you so much!

Since one of the biggest changes in Git for Windows v2.29.0 will be the automatic upgrade from GCM(W) to GCM Core: do you override and/or exercise a custom credential helper in that test matrix?

Thanks, Dscho