Git for Windows v2.12.1
Changes since Git for Windows v2.12.0 (February 25th 2017)
A MinGit-only v2.12.0(2) was released in the meantime.
New Features
* Comes with Git v2.12.1.
* In addition to the GitForWindows NuGet package, we now also publish
MinGit as a NuGet package.
* Git for Windows now bundles Git LFS.
* Comes with Git Credential Manager v1.9.0.
* Git can now be configured to use Secure Channel to use the Windows
Credential Store when fetching/pushing via HTTPS.
* Updates Git-Flow to v1.10.2 (addressing #1092).
* Git for Windows' fork of the MSYS2 runtime was rebased to a preview
of the Cygwin runtime version 2.8.0 (due soon) to fix fork: child
<n> - forked process <pid> died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code
0xC0000142, errno 11 problems.
Bug Fixes
* MinGit no longer gets distracted by incompatible libeay32.dll
versions in C:\Windows\system32.
* Long paths between 248 and 260 characters were not handled
correctly since Git for Windows v2.11.1, which is now fixed.
* The awk.exe shipped with MinGit now ships with a previously missing
a dependency (this fixes git mergetool).
* Git for Windows does not ship with localized messages to save on
bandwidth, and the gettext initialization can be skipped when the
directory with said messages is missing, saving us up to 150ms on
every git.exe startup.
* A possible crash when running git log --pickaxe-regex -S<regex> was
fixed.
* The ORIGINAL_PATH variable, recently introduced by the MSYS2
project to allow for special "PATH modes", is now handled in the
same manner as the PATH variable when jumping the Windows<->MSYS2
boundary, fixing issues when ORIGINAL_PATH is converted to Windows
format and back again.