Announcing Git for Windows 2.6.0

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

it is my pleasure to announce that Git for Windows 2.6.0 is available (see https://git-for-windows.github.io/ for details and download links).

Thank you, contributors!

Changes since Git for Windows 2.5.3 (September 18th 2015)

New Features

• Comes with Git 2.6.0
• The WhoUses.exe tool to determine which process holds a lock on a
given file (which was shipped with Git for Windows 1.x) gets
installed alongside Git for Windows again.
• The values CurrentVersion, InstallPath and LibexecPath are added to
the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GitForWindows registry key to help
third-party add-ons to find us.
• When fetching or pushing with Git without a console, we now fall
back to Git GUI's askpass helper to ask for pass phrases.
• When run through <INSTALL_PATH>\cmd\git.exe, Git will find tools in
$HOME/bin now.

Bug Fixes

• The portable version avoids DLL search path problems even when
installed into a FAT filesystem.
• Configuring notepad as editor without configuring a width for
commit messages no longer triggers an error message.
• When using Windows' default console for Git Bash, the .sh file
associations work again.
• Portable Git's README is now clearer about the need to run
post-install.bat when unpacking manually.
• We use the winpty trick now to run ipython interactively, too.
• When the environment variable HOME is not set, we now fall back
correctly to use HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.
• The home directory is now set correctly when running as the SYSTEM
user.
• The environment variable GIT_WORK_TREE may now differ in lower/
upper case with the Git's idea of the current working directory.
• Running git clone --dissociate ... no longer locks the pack files
during the repacking phase.
• Upstream cURL fixes for NTLM proxy issues ("Unknown SSL error")
were backported.

Ciao,
Johannes