Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git …

Git for Windows being based on MSYS2, it’s possible to install the mingw-w64-git package into an existing MSYS2 installation. That means that if you are already using MSYS2 on your …

Git for Windows is very different from Git in one very important respect: As Windows does not provide the POSIX infrastructure Git expects, Git for Windows always had to ship with much …

Git for Windows used to be developed using the development environment called “msysGit”, but roughly coinciding with Git 2.1, msysGit was superseded by a new development environment: …

Windows’ filesystem layer is inherently different from Linux’ (for which Git’s filesystem access is optimized). As a workaround, Git for Windows offers a filesystem cache which accelerates …

This is easy: just push a branch to your fork and then go to https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/new/main and select that branch from your fork. The harder part is to include …

Git’s source code ships with a lot of regression tests. This gives us a pretty good indicator of the source code’s health: if a regression test starts failing for a topic branch, it is safe to assume …

The tool makes it easy to leverage OpenSSH for remote repository access, which tends to be the most reliable choice within the specific context of Git for Windows (Git), without the need to run …

Everything you need to host a git server on Windows is included with Git for Windows. In these instructions it is assumed that Git for Windows is installed at %GIT_HOME% and that you …

Git for Windows targets end users, and for a long time third-party applications that spawn git.exe in order to provide Git-specific functionality piggy-backed onto the end-user installation.