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@dscho
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opened on Oct 14, 2014

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

  • release a new installer generated using the new Git for Windows SDK
  • replace msysgit.github.io by a redirect to the new home page
  • notify the readers of the Git mailing lists of the switch
  • add a note to the msysGit repositories

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  1. dscho
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  4. nalla commented on Mar 24, 2015

    @nalla
    nalla
    on Mar 24, 2015

    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superseded by the git-for-windows[8] project.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-windows
  5. dscho
    added a commit that references this issue on Mar 30, 2015

    Post 2.3 cycle (batch #12)

    9b22801

  6. JBlond commented on Jun 11, 2015

    @JBlond
    JBlond
    on Jun 11, 2015

    Is 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.

  7. dscho commented on Jun 11, 2015

    @dscho
    dscho
    on Jun 11, 2015
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    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.

  8. JBlond commented on Jun 11, 2015

    @JBlond
    JBlond
    on Jun 11, 2015

    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.

  9. dscho commented on Jun 11, 2015

    @dscho
    dscho
    on Jun 11, 2015
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    However if you say that the current RC's not stable enough then don't switch.

    ... yet. Exactly.

  10. DanRigby commented on Aug 18, 2015

    @DanRigby
    DanRigby
    on Aug 18, 2015

    Item 1 is complete as of yesterday.

  11. dscho commented on Aug 18, 2015

    @dscho
    dscho
    on Aug 18, 2015
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    Announcement sent: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/21805

  12. dscho commented on Aug 18, 2015

    @dscho
    dscho
    on Aug 18, 2015
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    Redirect in place: msysgit/msysgit.github.com@2a3c4da

  13. dscho commented on Aug 18, 2015

    @dscho
    dscho
    on Aug 18, 2015
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    With msysgit/msysgit@088d25f and msysgit@3259ef9, this ticket is finally addressed.

  14. dscho
    closed this as completedon Aug 18, 2015

  15. techtonik commented on Aug 19, 2015

    @techtonik
    techtonik
    on Aug 19, 2015

    Good job! =)

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