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installation comment

Subject: installation comment

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2 messages between Aug 13, 2025 and Aug 13, 2025.

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Ken Englander· Aug 13, 2025, 18:04 UTC · lore

Hi,

I just wanted to offer a suggestion related to the installation procedure. I am a new user, so I do not really have any idea how to answer the questions I was asked when installing Git (for Windows). I made my best guess based on the descriptive text provided, but not sure that was very clear in some of the questions.

So, I would like to suggest you provide a default installation (or a couple) based on a more limited set of questions. I am going to guess that these options can be changed after Git is installed.

Right now, I only installed it so I can manage all the older copies of my source code which I have been working on. It is a single program "project" of about 600 lines. I just want to make sure I do not accumulate too many prior versions since I will not need them right now.

Thanks for listening! I appreciate that there is a free tool to handle version control and whatever else it provides!

Ken Englander

Junio C Hamano· Aug 13, 2025, 20:23 UTC · re: Ken Englander · lore

Re: installation comment

Ken Englander <ken.englander@yahoo.com> writes:

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> I just wanted to offer a suggestion related to the installation
> procedure. I am a new user, so I do not really have any idea how
> to answer the questions I was asked when installing Git (for
> Windows). I made my best guess based on the descriptive text
> provided, but not sure that was very clear in some of the
> questions.
> ...

The Git project does not ship any binaries or installers. The Git for Windows project, however, does ship the installer you had trouble with, and you can report this at

    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues

which is their issue tracker. People from that project are surely monitoring this list as well, but but interacting with their issue tracker directly would help them.