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Switch over from msysgit.github.io to git-for-windows.io #12
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- added this to the First release of Git for Windows generated using the new SDK milestone
on Oct 14, 2014 Well, I just want to help, so I drew up a draft for an announcement message. Maybe you can take something from that.
[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows Release 2.x For reasons listed in [1] and [2] an investigation occurred to use a new platform to build Git for Windows. There were several approaches to use different platforms. Finally it was settled to use the MSYS2[3] platform to build Git for Windows. Thus a new Git for Windows SDK was developed based on MSYS2. This development took quite a bit of time. But this journey is finally at an end. Thanks to the hard work of some good developers there is now a working Git for Windows SDK[4], a working Git for Windows Portable Release[5] and a full Git for Windows installer[6]. All based on the 2.x release of git. There was also some change in the naming. The msysgit[7] project will be superseded by the git-for-windows[8] project. This is now the place where Git for Windows builds will be maintained. [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/12 [2] https://github.com/git-for-windows/sdk#todos-roughly-in-order-of-priority [3] http://msys2.github.io/ [4] https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/releases [5] TODO [6] TODO [7] https://github.com/msysgit [8] https://github.com/git-for-windowsIs it possible to have the "replace msysgit.github.io by a redirect to the new home page" soon'ish? Cause https://git-for-windows.github.io/ is very hard to find on google.
Is it possible to have the "replace msysgit.github.io by a redirect to the new home page" soon'ish?
Why, that would be premature. We do not have any official Git for Windows 2.x for end users out yet, just one release candidate.
All downloads on msysgit say preview. Is that so different?
However if you say that the current RC's not stable enough then don't switch.Also the wandisco com wandisco-certified-git-binaries are not as good as your binaries ;) I love the copy and paste option.
However if you say that the current RC's not stable enough then don't switch.
... yet. Exactly.
Item 1 is complete as of yesterday.
Announcement sent: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/21805
Redirect in place: msysgit/msysgit.github.com@2a3c4da
With msysgit/msysgit@088d25f and msysgit@3259ef9, this ticket is finally addressed.
Good job! =)
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on Sep 14, 2026
I already started to populate https://git-for-windows.github.io/ with a website modified from https://msysgit.github.io/.
To finalize this ticket, we need to