Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2024-02-16

Re: Hello question on Git for Windows 2.43.0 - GUID and/or SWID tag for this title

From: Konstantin Khomoutov <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-16 13:33:46

[...]
Therefore, please let me know what your role is with Git for Windows so I
can send this feedback accordingly and continue working on with our software
inventory vendor on the issue.
[...]
So, I would recommend to ask on GfW's Github Discussions [2] or on the
GfW's dedicated mailing list [3].
[...]
 2. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/discussions
 3. https://groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows/
To make things maybe a bit more clear: this very list our discussion is taking
place is dedicated to the development of the "core" Git, and Git-for-Windows
has started years ago as what one would call a continuous friendly fork of
Git. May changes implemented in GfW get upstreamed into the "core" Git,
but GfW still maintains a set of patches atop of Git, as well as a hefty
amount of infrastructure code (because in order to properly function under
Windows, Git requires lots of supporting software which presence is taken for
granted on Unix-like systems but does not normally exist on Windows).
Maintaining a Windows installer binary is also a task.

In other words, GfW has quite specific requirements to still be a separate,
though very close, project, and because of this is has its own separate
supporting infrastructure: a project and issue tracker on Github and its own
communication venues. These venues are what I and someone other earlier in
this discussion have pointed you at.
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