Frequently Asked Questions

What is the relationship between msysGit and Git for Windows, i.e. between https://github.com/msysgit/ and https://github.com/git-for-windows/?

How and when does Git for Windows get released?

What is "msysGit", what is "Git for Windows"?

What is this "MSys" thing in "MSysGit"?

Perl

• The 'Perl' version you ship is awfully old!
• I want to upgrade Perl. How do I do that?

Subversion

• Subversion is too old for git-svn to work properly. Can't you guys keep your software up-to-date?
• I want to upgrade Subversion. How do I do that?

Git cannot create a file or directory with a long path

Git shows my non-ASCII filenames as untracked

How do I add a certificate to the default set of certificates used by msysgit?

I can't checkout a repository due to illegal file/directory names

Why am I getting "fatal: Invalid symlink '...'. Function not supported." error when initializing/cloning?

Why is /libexec/git-core/ so huge?

Silent Installation

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