Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

How and when does msysGit get released?

We try to follow the git release schedule. When a core msysGit contributor reads that there is a new release, we try to update Git for Windows to the current 'next' branch of git.git.

We then run /share/msysGit/run-tests.sh (which is basically a slightly pimped up "make test" in /git/). Typically, there are one or two failures which we try to investigate, or send a message to the msysGit mailing list mentioning which tests need to be shown some love.

Once the person starting the process (we are very loose on procedures, basically the first person having time, the others realize from "git fetch"ing that the process was started) is reasonably happy with the test suite, he or she makes the packages (using /share/WinGit/release.sh, /share/WinGit/portable-release.sh, /share/msysGit/net/release.sh and /share/msysGit/full/release.sh) and uploads them to GoogleCode and sends a message to the msysGit and the Git mailing list.