Git for Windows v2.49.0.windows.1

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.48.1 (February 13th 2025)

Due to persistent maintenance challenges and the community's limited engagement and usage, git svn support in Git for Windows will be phased out over the next few months.

Git for Windows v2.48.1 was the last version to ship with the i686 ("32-bit") variant of the installer, portable Git and archive. Only 32-bit MinGit will be built for future versions, until April 2029.

New Features

• Comes with Git v2.49.0.
• Comes with OpenSSH v9.9.P2.
• Comes with PCRE2 v10.45.
• The previously-experimental --full-name-hash option has been accepted into upstream Git as --name-hash-version=2 and is no longer experimental.
• The git backfill command has been accepted into upstream Git; Its --batch-size=<n> option has been renamed to --min-batch-size=<n>, though.

Bug Fixes

• A change in upstream Git v2.48.0 broke renaming symlinks, which was fixed.
• On a recent Insider Windows version, users experienced the message: "Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer", which has been fixed.
• A bug has been fixed that, when calling git add -p from VS Code's internal terminal, after using the edit command, caused the internal terminal got stuck and no further command was accepted.
• The syntax highlighting of the nano editor was recently disabled in Git for Windows by mistake, which was fixed.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.49.0-64-bit.exe	726056328967f242fe6e9afbfe7823903a928aff577dcf6f517f2fb6da6ce83c
Git-2.49.0-arm64.exe	490ea5c2a1cb3ca4071079e262d1cba9331252cad1b76f9df1e89f04a09e761b
PortableGit-2.49.0-64-bit.7z.exe	bc980a64e875304ea5aa88386fda37e8a0089d0f2023616b9995b1ca75b471dd
PortableGit-2.49.0-arm64.7z.exe	8fa7e49b319b1109173a90a110aaeb0e9004600ff2ed44adc7dfe56ab21e4148
MinGit-2.49.0-64-bit.zip	971cdee7c0feaa1e41369c46da88d1000a24e79a6f50191c820100338fb7eca5
MinGit-2.49.0-arm64.zip	847bbe519443cd24c716f490a769056a35f42474cafb757663e1dceca159e911
MinGit-2.49.0-32-bit.zip	6d6439436d537624f619ffbf5dba49bcdc4ee1219c5c2756277669928fba2b74
MinGit-2.49.0-busybox-64-bit.zip	600d27b4ed7d86f9bc908c3e6563cfdd14f746dee1e91d5f714bfc9e7472cfb1
MinGit-2.49.0-busybox-32-bit.zip	a6f1b25a1c910381b0886ff37baa3d77d3b662e0a54114ca19244a3f3e9381b6
Git-2.49.0-64-bit.tar.bz2	6c5d66e3dd6cd44e50ba7892e9e24ace57934f277a3424c9702a400b3fedc1eb
Git-2.49.0-arm64.tar.bz2	48109aaccc5387df498c6b91e5f25c27201dac80b62cae3c576d922b3129a66e

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This discussion was created from the release Git for Windows v2.49.0.windows.1.

[developerkenneth]

I cant download latest version. I have been trying for hours now. date: 3/25/2025

[dscho]

@developerkenneth can you download the latest snapshot at https://gitforwindows.org/git-snapshots/?

[Thetwin21]

its still not working

[dscho]

What are the symptoms? What different ways have you tried? Is this a GitHub issue, i.e. do you have problems downloading other projects' files, too?

[developerkenneth]

solved it by changing my ip address

[dscho]

Oh, maybe you were unfortunate enough to run into issues where your IP was the same as that of a scraper who was throttled/blocked?

[Worldviral]

I was able to download it . Why?

[dscho]

@Worldviral Did you mean to say that you were not able to download it? If so, what were the symptoms? Don't leave us guessing here, unless you want to make this a fun guessing game where the most ridiculous guess gets a prize, in which case I would guess that your download link is controlled by an alien from a parallel universe who -- for reasons of their own! -- doesn't want you to use Git.

[Worldviral]

Is there another way to download it, pls help

[sergeevabc]

Folks, anyone managed to build Git for Windows 7 x64 (unofficially)? Please, share, it's important.
Meanwhile, using older msys-2.0.dll makes Git 2.49 and other utils work, except for ssh*.exe
The last ssh*.exe (OpenSSH 9.9p1) that works here is in Git 2.48.1 package.

[Kandhy-0X9]

how do i update git since this is my first time dong this

[dscho]

Either simply download the newest installer (which will detect that it's performing an upgrade), or run git update-git-for-windows.

[mozartoftech]

Keeps showing a like to object.githubcontent... each time i try to download it
https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/23216272/c6c1c87b-d3af-4ae8-9cd6-78a4aea72a77?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=releaseassetproduction%2F20250530%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250530T124313Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=18d25922b2af155cb30cf286c8fcca41e192fd3c17a0b3a76a498135a443adf8&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DGit-2.49.0-64-bit.exe&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream