Announcing Git for Windows 2.5.2

[Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>]

Dear Git users,

it is my pleasure to announce Git for Windows 2.5.2. The installers and portable versions can be downloaded from our home page at https://git-for-windows.github.io/.

We have been quite busy, lots of contributions (mostly bug reports, but also the occasional Pull Request). Thank you all! The changes since Git for Windows 2.5.1 are:

New Features

  • Comes with Git 2.5.2

  • Alternates can now point to UNC paths, i.e. network drives.

Bug fixes

  • The MSys2 runtime was taught not to look hard for groups, speeding up
    Git Bash's startup time.

  • A work around was added for issues when installing 32-bit Git for
    Windows on 64-bit Windows 10.

  • The installer no longer freezes when there are interactive commands
    in the user's .profile.

  • git rebase --skip was speeded up again.

  • The redirector in /bin/bash.exe now adjusts the PATH environment
    variable correctly (i.e. so that Git's executables are found) before
    launching the real Bash, even when called without --login.

  • When installing Git for Windows to a location whose path is longer
    than usual, Git commands no longer trigger occasional Bad address
    errors.

  • Git no longer asks for a DVD to be inserted again when one has been
    ejected from the D: drive.

Ciao,
Johannes