Git for Windows 2.5.3

Changes since Git-2.5.2(2) (September 13th 2015)

New Features

• Comes with Git 2.5.3.
• Includes git flow.
• By configuring git config core.editor notepad, users can now use notepad.exe as their default editor. Configuring git config format.commitMessageColumns 72 will be picked up by the notepad wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edited it.
• The Subversion bindings for use with git svn were upgraded to version 1.9.1.
• Some interactive console programs, e.g. psql.exe, now work in mintty thanks to pre-configured aliases.
• The mechanism to diff .pdf, .doc and .docx files known from Git for Windows 1.x has been ported to Git for Windows 2.x.
• Git can now access IPv6-only hosts via HTTP/HTTPS.

Bug fixes

• The .vimrc in the home directory is now allowed to have DOS line endings.
• The README.portable file of the portable Git mentions the need to run post-install.bat when the archive was extracted manually.
• Home directories for user names with non-ASCII characters are handled correctly now.
• The documentation no longer shows plain-text linkgit:... "links" but proper hyperlinks instead.
• The mtab link is written to /etc/mtab again, as it should.
• When run inside the PowerShell, Git no longer gets confused when the current directory's path and what is recorded in the file system differs in case (e.g. "GIT/" vs "Git/").