Git for Windows v2.19.1 Release Notes

Latest update: Oct 5th 2018

Introduction

These release notes describe issues specific to the Git for Windows release. The release notes covering the history of the core git commands can be found in the Git project.

See http://git-scm.com/ for further details about Git including ports to other operating systems. Git for Windows is hosted at https://gitforwindows.org/.

Known issues

Should you encounter other problems, please search the bug tracker and the mailing list, chances are that the problem was reported already. If it has not been reported, please follow our bug reporting guidelines and report the bug.

Licenses

Git is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

Git for Windows also contains Embedded CAcert Root Certificates. For more information please go to https://www.cacert.org/policy/RootDistributionLicense.php.

This package contains software from a number of other projects including Bash, zlib, curl, tcl/tk, perl, MSYS2 and a number of libraries and utilities from the GNU project, licensed under the GNU General Public License. Likewise, it contains Perl which is dual licensed under the GNU General Public License and the Artistic License.

Changes since Git for Windows v2.19.0 (September 11th 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.18.0 (June 22nd 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.17.1(2) (May 29th 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.17.1 (May 29th 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.17.0 (April 3rd 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.16.3 (March 23rd 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.16.2 (February 20th 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.16.1(4) (February 7th 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.16.1(3) (February 6th 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.16.1(2) (February 2nd 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.16.1 (January 22nd 2018)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.16.0(2) (January 18th 2018)

This is a hotfix release, based on upstream Git's hotfix to address a possible segmentation fault associated with case-insensitive file systems.

Note: another hotfix might be coming the day after tomorrow, as cURL announced a new version addressing security advisories that might affect how Git talks via HTTP/HTTPS, too.

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.15.1(2) (November 30th 2017)

Git for Windows now has a new homepage: https://gitforwindows.org/ (it is still graciously hosted by GitHub, but now much quicker to type).

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.15.1 (November 29th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.15.0 (October 30th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.14.3 (October 23rd 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.14.2(3) (October 12th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.14.2(2) (October 5th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.14.2 (September 26th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.14.1 (August 10th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.14.0(2) (August 7th 2017)

Note: there have been MinGit-only releases v2.12.2(3) and v2.13.1(3) with backports of the important bug fix in v2.14.1 as well as the experimental --show-ignored-directory option of git status.

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.14.0 (August 6th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.13.3 (July 13th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.13.2 (June 26th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.13.1(2) (June 15th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.13.1 (June 13th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.13.0 (May 10th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.12.2(2) (April 5th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.12.2 (March 27th 2017)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.12.1 (March 21st 2017)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.10.2 (November 2nd 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.10.1(2) (October 13th 2016)

Git for windows v2.10.1(2) was a MinGit-only release (i.e. there was no Git for windows installer for that version).

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.10.1 (October 4th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.10.0 (September 3rd 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.9.3(2) (August 25th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.9.3 (August 13th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.9.2 (July 16th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.9.0 (June 14th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.8.4 (June 7th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.8.3 (May 20th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.8.2 (May 3rd 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.8.1 (April 4th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.8.0 (March 29th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.4 (March 18th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.3 (March 15th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.2 (February 23rd 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.1(2) (February 12th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.1 (February 6th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.0(2) (February 2nd 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.0 (January 5th 2016)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.6.4 (December 14th 2015)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.6.3 (November 10th 2015)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.6.2 (October 19th 2015)

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.6.1 (October 5th 2015)

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Changes since Git-2.6.0 (September 29th 2015)

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Changes since Git-2.5.3 (September 18th 2015)

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

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Changes since Git-2.4.0(2) (May 7th 2015)

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Changes since Git-2.3.7-preview20150429

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Changes since Git-1.9.5-preview20150402

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Changes since Git-1.9.5-preview20141217

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Security Updates

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Changes since Git-1.9.4-preview20140929

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Changes since Git-1.9.4-preview20140815

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Changes since Git-1.9.4-preview20140611

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Changes since Git-1.9.2-preview20140411

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Changes since Git-1.7.6-preview20110708

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Changes since Git-1.7.4-preview20110211

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Changes since Git-1.6.1-preview20081225

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Changes since Git-1.5.3-preview20071027

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Changes since WinGit-0.2-alpha