Git for Windows 2.12.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.12.0 (February 25th 2017)

A MinGit-only v2.12.0(2) was released in the meantime.

New Features

• Comes with Git v2.12.1.
• In addition to the GitForWindows NuGet package, we now also publish MinGit as a NuGet package.
• Git for Windows now bundles Git LFS.
• Comes with Git Credential Manager v1.9.0.
• Git can now be configured to use Secure Channel to use the Windows Credential Store when fetching/pushing via HTTPS.
• Updates Git-Flow to v1.10.2 (addressing #1092).
• Git for Windows' fork of the MSYS2 runtime was rebased to a preview of the Cygwin runtime version 2.8.0 (due soon) to fix fork: child <n> - forked process <pid> died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000142, errno 11 problems.

Bug Fixes

• MinGit no longer gets distracted by incompatible libeay32.dll versions in C:\Windows\system32.
• Long paths between 248 and 260 characters were not handled correctly since Git for Windows v2.11.1, which is now fixed.
• The awk.exe shipped with MinGit now ships with a previously missing a dependency (this fixes git mergetool).
• Git for Windows does not ship with localized messages to save on bandwidth, and the gettext initialization can be skipped when the directory with said messages is missing, saving us up to 150ms on every git.exe startup.
• A possible crash when running git log --pickaxe-regex -S<regex> was fixed.
• The ORIGINAL_PATH variable, recently introduced by the MSYS2 project to allow for special "PATH modes", is now handled in the same manner as the PATH variable when jumping the Windows<->MSYS2 boundary, fixing issues when ORIGINAL_PATH is converted to Windows format and back again.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.12.1-64-bit.exe	101232d5aadbe4521efec58b8b7f3629775bbc5e1f3949ffc8160033dd2ecf90
Git-2.12.1-32-bit.exe	077085ebedae37c9cfaeac5a4f021503627e0a9f14f7bc618dadf382ca9bc688
PortableGit-2.12.1-64-bit.7z.exe	8b0000297c9501de2cbb007f97c69e7541869137a757bba81673685665b7de28
PortableGit-2.12.1-32-bit.7z.exe	2f9d2bdf52a7a3855d97a8551162436d7b8d153ea2b823d6be67997aad7a1d23
MinGit-2.12.1-64-bit.zip	28ec1229d344acc773379aa57161fefc4a0834814b09485446bca13b6e9bef1c
MinGit-2.12.1-32-bit.zip	20d69ec27a10060e9762e85b500dac8b34b55639de08ea617d4ec0937452e2f1
Git-2.12.1-64-bit.tar.bz2	f9484b49463dde1baf36abc8456dd5cfacb99cbc76977b2bb7abfe173720b09e
Git-2.12.1-32-bit.tar.bz2	576d0d5b0f7642015fdebba019bb0a5c3fd03cc04fd0c4ffc1033a96dca26cbf

v2.12.0.windows.2: Git for Windows v2.12.0(2)

This is a MinGit-only release.

Changes since Git for Windows v2.12.0 (February 25th 2017)

New Features

  * In addition to the GitForWindows NuGet package, we now also publish
    MinGit as a NuGet package.
  * Git for Windows now bundles Git LFS.
  * Comes with Git Credential Manager v1.9.0.

Bug Fixes

  * MinGit no longer gets distracted by incompatible libeay32.dll
    versions in C:\Windows\system32.
  * Long paths between 248 and 260 characters were not handled
    correctly since Git for Windows v2.11.1, which is now fixed.
  * The awk.exe shipped with MinGit now ships a previously missing a
    dependency (this fixes git mergetool).
  * Git for Windows does not ship with localized messages to save on
    bandwidth, and the gettext initialization can be skipped when the
    directory with said messages is missing, saving us ~150ms on every
    git.exe startup.

Git for Windows 2.12.0

Changes since Git for Windows v2.11.1 (February 3rd 2017)

New Features

• Comes with Git v2.12.0.
• The builtin difftool is no longer opt-in, as it graduated to be officially adopted by the Git project.
• Comes with v2.7.0 of the POSIX emulation layer based on the Cygwin runtime.
• Includes cURL 7.53.1.
• The Portable Git now defaults to using the included Git Credential Manager.

Bug Fixes

• The stderr output is unbuffered again, i.e. errors are displayed immediately (this was reported on the Git mailing list as well as issues #1064, #1064, #1068).
• Git can clone again from paths containing non-ASCII characters.
• We no longer ship two different versions of curl.exe.
• Hitting Ctrl+T in Git GUI even after all files have been (un)staged no longer throws an exception.
• A couple of Git GUI bugs regarding the list of recent repositories have been fixed.
• The git-bash.exe helper now waits again for the terminal to be closed before returning.
• Git for Windows no longer attempts to send empty credentials to HTTP(S) servers that handle only Basic and/or Digest authentication.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.12.0-64-bit.exe	0224c1cf4ff48535fdfc2555175be9a06c6d8b67fbf208b1c524f01252f8b13b
Git-2.12.0-32-bit.exe	de7f69bd6313bf7b427b02687a0ee930012a32d40aed2bb96f428699c936180d
PortableGit-2.12.0-64-bit.7z.exe	5bebd0ee21e5cf3976bc71826a28b2663c7a0c9b5c98f4ab46ff03c3c0d3556f
PortableGit-2.12.0-32-bit.7z.exe	0375ba0a05f9cd501cc8089b9af6f2adf8904a5efb1e5b9421e6561bd9f8c817
MinGit-2.12.0-64-bit.zip	6238f65c4d8412b993cb092efde4954f8cb7da4def54d0c1533835f00e83fdad
MinGit-2.12.0-32-bit.zip	5a118ff8a8f859866d6874261fc8ec685848a2ccf9fa0858417c98e21f5c0ec3
Git-2.12.0-64-bit.tar.bz2	b512fb28ceeddb6a6cdf15e6c936aea15fd2b1b3c8154f72101f8c9060549f90
Git-2.12.0-32-bit.tar.bz2	a6c0b5b36c19a70f2c9ffd8fbfeb57bedbb7a9a2207672ac38c5bc5a38ae320a

Git for Windows 2.11.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.11.0(3) (January 14th 2017)

New Features

• Comes with Git v2.11.1.
• Performance was enhanced when using fscache in a massively sparse checkout.
• Git hooks can now be .exe files.

Bug Fixes

• Git GUI will no longer set GIT_DIR when calling Git Bash after visualizing the commit history.
• When the PATH contains UNC entries, Git Bash will no longer error out with a "Bad address" error message.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.11.1-64-bit.exe	2c6408f98297b8f4ad0df36f3aabab67164b3b3d7bb3d91d49f237aba566f8ac
Git-2.11.1-32-bit.exe	a556c6f65c13f54dcce64df96bbc94a156bb7c9025a27cf0caa329648adaac06
PortableGit-2.11.1-64-bit.7z.exe	47058bbfb815ec3e9247b96aedcaea21df58db59c3a73594ffcbd4171ac2cb11
PortableGit-2.11.1-32-bit.7z.exe	2f76bed9b649d990cf6999674e11e6cf5d502d25b89072b34c984f6aa86dafbb
MinGit-2.11.1-64-bit.zip	668d16a799dd721ed126cc91bed49eb2c072ba1b25b50048280a4e2c5ed56e59
MinGit-2.11.1-32-bit.zip	6ca79af09015625f350ef4ad74a75cfb001b340aec095b6963be9d45becb3bba
Git-2.11.1-64-bit.tar.bz2	06b066c7a3f1934d96f2a838b64cbf1aced8578e5321bf6ff0e7bd65e6c34988
Git-2.11.1-32-bit.tar.bz2	f06e3d78ca25ae8def8dac3e584912c74d0d819966772dfb965d78e1e462f0b0

v2.11.1.windows-prerelease.2

This is a prerelease.

Git for Windows 2.11.0(3)

Changes since Git for Windows v2.11.0(2) (January 13th 2017)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an off-by-two bug in the POSIX emulation layer that possibly affected third-party Perl scripts that load native libraries dynamically.
• A regression in rebase -i, introduced into v2.11.0(2), which caused commit attribution to be mishandled after resolving conflicts, was fixed.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.11.0.3-64-bit.exe	c3897e078cd7f7f496b0e4ab736ce144c64696d3dbee1e5db417ae047ca3e27f
Git-2.11.0.3-32-bit.exe	dff9bec9c4e21eaba5556fe4a7b1071d1f18e3a8b9645bffb48fda9eaee37e62
PortableGit-2.11.0.3-64-bit.7z.exe	41a4ab3a1f0c88a3254b5a30d49c0c6e4ef06c204ddce53e23fc15d6e56f8d24
PortableGit-2.11.0.3-32-bit.7z.exe	8bf3769c37945e991903dd1b988c6b1d97bbf0f3afc9851508974f38bf94dc01
MinGit-2.11.0.3-64-bit.zip	bf3714e04bcbafb464353235a27c328c43d40568d6b2e9064f1a63444b8236c5
MinGit-2.11.0.3-32-bit.zip	db05d5e98ef1017dd07f27fa4641dc8c0d66ba09da5a196ef656e7f1d7c078e2
Git-2.11.0.3-64-bit.tar.bz2	65296c54f0b8294374547cc6a169d6ea95178e12dee04cd2d4632f39d8fe7852
Git-2.11.0.3-32-bit.tar.bz2	0f0e2f78fc9b91d6c860eb7de742f3601b0ccd13c5c61444c7cf55b00bcb4ed4

Git for Windows 2.11.0(2)

Changes since Git for Windows v2.11.0 (December 1st 2016)

New Features

• Reading a large index has been speeded up using pthreads.
• The checkout operation was speeded up for the common cases.
• The status operation was made faster in large worktrees with many changes.
• The diff operation saw performance improvements when working on a huge number of renamed files.
• PuTTY's plink.exe can now be used in GIT_SSH_COMMAND without jumping through hoops, too.
• The MSYS2 runtime was synchronized with Cygwin 2.6.1.

Bug Fixes

• Non-ASCII characters are now shown properly again in Git Bash.
• Implicit NTLM authentication works again when accessing a remote repository via HTTP/HTTPS without having to specify empty user name and password.
• Our poll() emulation now uses 64-bit tick counts to avoid the (very rare) wraparound issue where it could miscalculate time differences every 49 days.
• The --no-lock-index option of git status is now also respected also in submodules.
• The regression of v2.11.0 where Git could no longer push to shared folders via UNC paths is fixed.
• A bug in the MSYS2 runtime where it performed POSIX->Windows argument conversion incorrectly was fixed.
• The MSYS2 runtime was prepared to access the FAST_CWD internal data structure in upcoming Windows versions.
• Fixed a bug in the experimental builtin difftool where it would not handle copied/renamed files properly.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.11.0.2-64-bit.exe	c7c6f8ba88a6da491117e03df559abd0fece1352f40d8b2d9bffc9c6c12c5800
Git-2.11.0.2-32-bit.exe	f7862331c994072402f9d7f03a4a6e2caec8ce0e91581ffbc6114631e920d9c9
PortableGit-2.11.0.2-64-bit.7z.exe	d4de119186bd63535fb792d73437cd0e2eb640ad50572ef7e04013f96aa70270
PortableGit-2.11.0.2-32-bit.7z.exe	1f871552d1736bf86b08f81a55a29ff5aba9943d3c77b16294bdffca8c066f09
MinGit-2.11.0.2-64-bit.zip	77558f381d21175dc017e90bc9cab90c8850bff6348a7dd112780f4f1f256449
MinGit-2.11.0.2-32-bit.zip	23167f05f1274e169d42677a99bbc3e03e879250c71d5dcce6b0fbf3164013b8
Git-2.11.0.2-64-bit.tar.bz2	28d6d35db9f706c0439a55183ff68d9bbef9b67d66b11ada3775b2492a1d67bb
Git-2.11.0.2-32-bit.tar.bz2	592bbfd08c91b5fc826116b0ee29d9949e8e95b3094b81f0d1acea045e98fb64

v2.11.1.mingit-prerelease.1: This is a MinGit-only preview to help testing experimental features

In particular, the GIT_REDIRECT_STD* feature that allows redirecting the
standard handles to, say, named pipes, is a feature that should benefit
from wider testing before entering Git for Windows proper (but still as an
experimental feature).

v2.11.1.windows-prerelease.1

This is a prerelease.

prerelease-v2.11.0.windows.1.1

Pre-release to test fixes for #981 and #987