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  • Replace all page contents with links to the new location This trick was performed via: git ls-files \*.md | while read f do pr_url=https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-for-windows.github.io/pull/59 url=https://gitforwindows.org/${f%.md} echo "This wiki page [has been migrated]($pr_url) to a new location: [$url]($url)" >"$f" done There are two pages where this does not make sense, `0.-Index` and `_Footer`, which will be handled in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Mar 18, 2025
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  • Stop referring to the Google Group; It was shut down. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Mar 11, 2025
    0a6533b

  • Whoops, forgot to adjust some parts the the new lay of the land.

    @dscho dscho committed Feb 10, 2024
    8c33978

  • Adjust the documentation to how things are done now using the GitForWindowsHelper GitHub App

    @dscho dscho committed Feb 10, 2024
    9398d90

  • Releasing Git for Windows: we do push to `main` more quickly, nowadays Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Jun 17, 2022
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  • Releasing Git for Windows: note that Pacman takes a long time Folks who did the release for the first time indicated to be surprised by this ;-) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Jun 17, 2022
    d892aa4

  • Releasing Git for Windows: link to the "new git version" issue Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Jun 17, 2022
    86a41d5

  • Releasing Git for Windows: We no longer use `git-sdk-*-extra-artifacts` The Pipelines generating the extra artifacts were historically used to generate Git for Windows' release artifacts, but we cut that out and now have a much faster, much more streamlined release process. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Jun 17, 2022
    60bd6dc

  • We just switched from an Azure Pipeline synchronizing the git-sdk-* repositories to two GitHub workflows

    @dscho dscho committed Dec 6, 2021
    1caccbe

  • Releasing Git for Windows: describe a convenient alias Let's automate All The Things! Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Dec 19, 2020
    c4cf775

  • Releasing Git for Windows: fix scriptlet It is quite possible that there are no upstreamed commits between two upstream Git tags, e.g. between -rc versions. For those, the indicated scriptlet would generate an empty `sed` script. Let's handle that case appropriately. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Dec 19, 2020
    4c6aa47

  • Fix whitespace issues Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Dec 19, 2020
    ca955c8

  • Releasing Git for Windows: explain how to integrate last-minute changes outside of Git's own source code Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

    @dscho dscho committed Dec 19, 2020
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  • At long last, taking some time to write all of this down

    @dscho dscho committed Jun 30, 2020
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