Git: Add README info on what is the difference between the various releases?

[E3V3A]

I'm trying to understand what release best suit my need, but I cannot find any single place that clearly explain the differences between the various releases.

In particular between:

Git-XXX-64-bit.exe
PortableGit-XXX
MinGit-XXX

• Where are they described?
• What are their difference?

Perhaps a table with features would be helpful...

[siprbaum]

If you are interested in the Git release notes, have a look at
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/tree/master/Documentation/RelNotes

GitForWindows is more than Git alone (e.g. like unix tools, like bash etc) and also has additional
changes on top of plain git.
See https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/ReleaseNotes.md for high level details

[E3V3A]

The release notes are useless, as I am trying to get a simple overview of the differences between the above packages. (Perhaps my use of the word "release" was not correct.)

[dscho]

This would make for a perfect first Pull Request.

My suggestion would be to add a section or paragraph to the ReleaseNotes.md file describing that Git for Windows offers 64-bit and 32-bit versions of

• Git for Windows (regular installer, recommended),
• Portable Git (recommended if installation is not an option),
• MinGit (recommended only for use by 3rd-party applications, not for interactive use),
• BusyBox-backed MinGit (experimental, smaller version of MinGit),
• Git as a .tar.bz2 archive (probably useful only to a couple dozen persons on this planet), and
• .pdb files for use with crash dump analyzers and debuggers

Furthermore, there are NuGet package versions of the Portable Git and MinGit.

This paragraph should then be included when building the release descriptions.

[dscho]

@E3V3A so... how's your progress?

[BSGILL012]

Great ji