Re: SSH version on Git 1.8.1.2 for Windows is outdated.

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:05:11 +0100
Kristof Mattei [off-list ref] wrote:

We're having issues with the version of SSH included in git version
1.8.1.msysgit.1 (Git-1.8.1.2-preview20130201.exe)

The included version of SSH is from 2007:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin - Old>ssh -V
OpenSSH_4.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007

Updating the OpenSSH component (downloaded with Cygwin, cumbersome!!!)
resolves the issue:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin>ssh -V
OpenSSH_6.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013

Is there any way you can incorporate this update in the installer?

Yes, you should grab the msysGit (the Git for Windows build
environment) [2], tweak it to include the new OpenSSH binary, ensure it
builds and works OK and then send a pull request (or post your patchset
to the msysgit mailing list [3].

A sort of crash course on how to get started is [1].
The main page for the msysGit/Git for Windows development is [4].

Note that there should be no Cygwin involved, of course.
Git for Windows is built completely from the sources of all the
components it includes, using MinGW/MSYS so no component of Git for
Windows depends on the Cygwin runtime DLL.

1. https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/102#issuecomment-13572331
2. http://github.com/msysgit/msysgit
3. http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit
4. http://msysgit.github.com/