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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:58:22 -0500
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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On 2013-06-18 08:11, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Would it be possible for the Git maintainer to update Git to a more recent
> version than 1.7.9, which was released almost 18 months ago?  Git is now on
> v1.8.3.1.

FWIW, I have been using 1.8 versions for a little while without incident.

> Alternatively, I'd be willing to take over the maintainership, although there
> may be initial teething difficulties as I've only just managed to get Git
> building on my machine, still see it failing some test cases, and have not
> maintained a Cygwin package previously.

For whomever ends up updating git, I would propose a number of changes 
from Ports:

http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/git

There are a number of packaging improvements there, splitting up extra 
components by dependencies, installing all the documentation (to fix git 
help -w), and a patch to use cygstart as the default "browser" (ditto).


Yaakov


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