Is there any feature difference among the different builds?

[James Russell Moore]

Hi! I'm used to have Git installed, for which I use the main package so to speak, but as of now there are 4 variants being provided:

 - The main one, an installer for Git for Windows.

 - A Portable version of the same thing (I believe).

 - MiniGit

 - MiniGit (with busybox)

Is there any difference among the builds? I mean, I understand the one that relies on busybox is probably using it for its common applets and the portable version is likely in feature parity with the installer one, but I tried looking for info on the actual differences and couldn't find anything.

For example, MiniGit seems to be portable too, is there anything that can be done with the regular version that can't be done with that one?

Thanks for your time and for working on Git for Windows, it's highly appreciated!

[Philip Oakley]

This is roughly my way of seeing the differences

The MinGit is described in the wiki https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/MinGit. MinGit is not meant to be interactive, but to provide an 'API' for other programmes.

You are right about the 'main' and portable versions (essentially identical functions, but different 'install' processes)

There is also the "Git for Windows SDK" if you wish to contribute: https://gitforwindows.org/#contribute https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/releases/tag/git-sdk-1.0.8

In addition, for the upstream Git, there are "GitHub Actions" that can auto compile and test your forked git repo to try out 'improvements' and suggestions.