Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 09:35:09 AM GMT

CONTRIBUTING.md: fix PuTTY URL (#5725)

Already in c2a2fd57402e (CONTRIBUTING.md: add guide for first-time
contributors, 2018-03-01) there were _two_ links added for PuTTY, one
being the correct, official one, and the other an official-looking one
owned by a third-party. Let's only use the official one.

Original-patch-by: @jsoref in https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/774

Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 07:48:46 AM GMT

Replace experimental path walk feature with upstream version (#5689)

This reverts the experimental version of the `git repack --path-walk`
feature and replaces it with the version that recently merged with
upstream. It includes `fixup!` commits for the reverts of the previous
feature for easy reduction in the branch thicket during the 2.51.0
release window.

> Note: In the current version, I have not performed any local
validation, only resolved one text merge conflict.

Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 09:44:54 AM GMT

Merge tag 'v2.50.1'

Git 2.50.1

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 09:26:00 AM GMT

mingw: support Windows Server 2016 again

It was reported to the Git for Windows project that a simple `git init`
fails on Windows Server 2016:

  D:\Dev\test> git init
  error: could not write config file D:/Dev/test/.git/config: Function not implemented
  fatal: could not set 'core.repositoryformatversion' to '0'

According to https://endoflife.date/windows-server, Windows Server 2016
is officially supported for another one-and-a-half years as of time of
writing, so this is not good.

The culprit is the `mingw_rename()` changes that try to use POSIX
semantics when available, but fail to fall back properly on Windows
Server 2016.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5695.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 07:26:56 PM GMT

Reapply "bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions"

The `bswap.h` header was introduced to fix the Windows/ARM64 build.
Unfortunately, this broke big Endian machines. Instead of fixing it
properly, upstream Git simply reverted the commit in 1c62df0abe3d
(Revert "bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions",
2025-06-12), re-breaking the Windows/ARM64 build.

Let's re-un-break the Windows/ARM64 build by reverting 1c62df0abe3d
(Revert "bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions",
2025-06-12).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 07:26:56 PM GMT

Reapply "bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions"

The `bswap.h` header was introduced to fix the Windows/ARM64 build.
Unfortunately, this broke big Endian machines. Instead of fixing it
properly, upstream Git simply reverted the commit in 1c62df0abe3d
(Revert "bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions",
2025-06-12), re-breaking the Windows/ARM64 build.

Let's re-un-break the Windows/ARM64 build by reverting 1c62df0abe3d
(Revert "bswap.h: add support for built-in bswap functions",
2025-06-12).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 06:26:44 AM GMT

Merge 'readme' into HEAD

Add a README.md for GitHub goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 01:02:22 PM GMT

Fix Coverity builds (#5672)

As of three months ago, Git for Windows' [Coverity builds
fail](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/actions/workflows/coverity.yml?query=branch%3Amain).

The reason is most likely the most recent release, 2025.3. Its [release
notes](https://documentation.blackduck.com/bundle/coverity-docs/page/webhelp-files/relnotes_latest.html)
do not shed any light into the issue (and does not mention that they
bundle JDK20 and JDK22 in addition to JRE, because what's better than a
single Java installation: three, right?).

My investigation turned up `.dll` files that are located in Coverity's
`bin/` directory which have the same name as `.dll` files in Git for
Windows' SDK. As a consequence, the former override the latter and throw
off MSYS2's logic to find the MSYS2 root directory given the location of
certain `.dll` files.

This PR fixes this issue, and while at it, enhances the Coverity
workflow to print out the build log in case of failure.

Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 08:19:36 AM GMT

Create an issue form (#5238)

This fixes #5229 (Issue templates no longer working):

Seems that the templates need to be put into `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/`, and that `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md` does not work anymore.

We could use the opportunity to turn this into [an issue form](https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-encourage-useful-issues-and-pull-requests/configuring-issue-templates-for-your-repository#creating-issue-templates) (which would make it much less likely to get those issues with all the placeholders left as-are, I'd hope).

Thu, Jun 5, 2025, 11:20:05 AM GMT

mingw: avoid the comma operator (#5660)

The pattern `return errno = ..., -1;` is observed several times in
`compat/mingw.c`. It has served us well over the years, but now clang
starts complaining:

```
  compat/mingw.c:723:24: error: possible misuse of comma operator here [-Werror,-Wcomma]
    723 |                 return errno = ENOSYS, -1;
        |                                      ^
```

See for example [this failing workflow
run](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-sdk-arm64/actions/runs/15457893907/job/43513458823#step:8:201).

Let's appease clang (and also reduce the use of the no longer common
comma operator).