[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.34.1

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.34.1 is available from:

https://gitforwindows.org/

Changes since Git for Windows v2.34.0 (November 15th 2021)

New Features

* Comes with Git v2.34.1.
* Comes with Git Credential Manager Core v2.0.605.12951.
* Comes with cURL v7.80.0.

Git-2.34.1-64-bit.exe | d8769a1d90b2f1f7d85ae91e724c8dad16f340c5b130d49368a308dd086a5f52
Git-2.34.1-32-bit.exe | 8d584e3c975fb665618c0dec0ffc80b07e8504538f8b9f73edbb67ffb7a7c8b9
PortableGit-2.34.1-64-bit.7z.exe | dbf63703f7a37a374591450f1b1466b83ceccb724067521786bf8c5f69ed3ced
PortableGit-2.34.1-32-bit.7z.exe | 95e198aaf6e6455910facfc522f7981934822fb362f6605375751b8a9c62db55
MinGit-2.34.1-64-bit.zip | f9007b9fc3fabd5af824269eb4ac27401f632170b66b265045d05780beafe14e
MinGit-2.34.1-32-bit.zip | 43cfb79be29640beda05b50456fe7ddcad2f8723d3c40ffff2d27bec2a476d17
MinGit-2.34.1-busybox-64-bit.zip | 4d3ab5d2bd990e2b4d305998059fe21c031f4fa84b0683765184083e2bd720d6
MinGit-2.34.1-busybox-32-bit.zip | 56ceec251954039f8c202d8949591e99dd919d738208bf4fe4dcf8d472840c17
Git-2.34.1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 0d962f5894b94b93a966a2c12f77330e5f68aacae775059fb30dd61f2c08ef00
Git-2.34.1-32-bit.tar.bz2 | 109d69b92e5383d40765064bcd25183af05b12c64a95597419a703004a7c8521

Ciao,
Johannes

[skybuck2000]

What is the difference between gitforwindows and this:

https://git-scm.com/

?? me confused !

Bye,

  Skybuck.

[Philip Oakley]

Generally, nothing.

The Git-scm web site is for documentation and explanation about Git, and as a convenience will link to various (as best I understand it) convenient distributions. Importantly, for Windows users, it offers a link to the latest Git-for-Windows distribution.

The gitforwindows.org site provides the same download link.

Obviously, you should check the hash values to check if they are in sync.

HTH

[skybuck2000]

OK,

Now I see two differences.

The main git-scm website download link, links to a subsection of html on it's own server, making it seems at first like it gets the software from it's own server.

In that subsection of html it finally links towards the github repository of git-for-windows proving that it indeed links to this software.

It also supplies an automatic download, not sure where that comes from, it says:

http://objects.githubusercontent.com ??? not sure what this is, possibly some cache server ?

Could also be that it stores it on it's own server.

This idea of storing it on it's own server has adventage and disadventage.

If github goes down more redudancy. if git-scm gets hacks then ofcourse problem with code injection possibility, same could be said for github but then vice versa.

This cache server githubusercontent.com is a bit suspicious though, could be a nice intermediate to inject "observation/monitor code" by CIA/NSA ! ;)

Bye for now,

  Skybuck.

[Philip Oakley]

> Could also be that it stores it on it's own server.

GibHub provides (open-source free) the hosting for the git-scm site.. So yes, a big happy family ;-)