git-for-windows/git v2.27.0.windows.1

Git for Windows 2.27.0

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.26.2 (April 20th 2020)

Due to a bug when handling symbolic links that was fixed in this version, git status will show symbolic links as modified even as git diff won't report any changes. The quickest work-around is to call git add -u which lets Git realize that nothing changed, actually.

This release comes with a Git Bash that optionally uses Windows-native pseudo consoles. Meaning: finally, Git Bash can accommodate console programs like node.exe, Python or PHP, without using the winpty helper (see Known Issues). Note that this is still a very new feature and is therefore known to have some corner-case bugs.

New Features

• Comes with Git v2.27.0.
• Comes with OpenSSL v1.1.1g.
• Comes with cURL v7.70.0.
• Comes with subversion v1.13.0.
• Comes with MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin 3.1.4.
• The release notes have been made a bit more readable and are now linked from the Start Menu group.
• The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are now linked in a Start Menu item.
• Comes with Git LFS v2.11.0.
• Comes with OpenSSH v8.3p1.

Bug Fixes

• Some Perl packages (e.g. Net::SSLeay) that had been broken recently have been fixed.
• Git for Windows and WSL Git now have the same idea of symbolic links' length, i.e. git status will no longer mark them as modified in Git for Windows after checking them out in WSL.