It's nice to see Microsoft supporting this now that they've committed to Git in TFS/VSO. It's also good to have the latest version of Git.

Git on Windows has been stuck at 1.9.* for awhile and always in "preview" because it was never really meant for production usage since the main contributor wasn't able to spend much time on it (and even then, he didn't primarily use Windows): http://episodes.gitminutes.com/2014/04/gitminutes-28-johanne...

I applaud the work that Johannes Schindelin (and others) did to get Git on Windows for these past years of increasing usage and look forward to this project taking it to the next level.

Oooops! I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (just done apt-get update/upgrade) and my git version is 1.9.1 ...

On Ubuntu, you can get the latest version via:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install git
  git --version

Note that this is at "git version 2.5.0"

This updated Git for Windows project brings that same version to Windows.

keyword: LTS

in contrast, Ubuntu 15.04 has 2.1.4

This is excellent news. I teach Git courses, and the Windows users (often the majority) are often frustrated to be left behind, and/or be unable to use modern features. This will be a big boost to their productivity, as well as their parity with Unix/Linux users.

It's also excellent news, in that it provides yet another demonstration of Microsoft's growing support for open-source projects. I'm not sure if I'm more surprised or impressed, but it's a trend that I welcome, and that I think can only help users and developers alike.

I'm a windows user and a bit of a got novice. Care to explain what I've been missing?

The biggest differences (from what I can remember) have to do with the behavior with remote branches, especially when it comes to pushing to a remote.

> The maintenance of Git for Windows is supported by Microsoft from now on.

So now maintenance is not done by GitHub. Hmmmm should be interesting to see Git more integrated with Windows. I HATE developing on Windows due to a large part git for windows and command line. Just look at installing Python on Windows to see what is wrong with Windows :)

> Just look at installing Python on Windows to see what is wrong with Windows :)

I can't stand Windows either and haven't used it in years, but even many years ago ActivePython worked just fine. Now there's Anaconda too, which I'm sure works well (because Continuum is awesome).

So, I guess you're just referring to the standard distribution? What's wrong with it on Windows?

Yes Anaconda is okay BUT it isn't a vanilla install nor is it a simple pip to install or update like it is on my Linux box.

Python should just be a exe and I can just use pip.

There's always chocolatey:

choco install python

https://chocolatey.org/packages/python

Does this fix the upper/lower case issue that plagues Win32 git implementations?

I thought this was going to be about a Git application for Windows 2.5 :(