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Jeff Hostetler dce7d29551 msvc: support building Git using MS Visual C++
With this patch, Git can be built using the Microsoft toolchain, via:

	make MSVC=1 [DEBUG=1]

Third party libraries are built from source using the open source
"vcpkg" tool set. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

On a first build, the vcpkg tools and the third party libraries are
automatically downloaded and built. DLLs for the third party libraries
are copied to the top-level (and t/helper) directory to facilitate
debugging. See compat/vcbuild/README.

A series of .bat files are invoked by the Makefile to find the location
of the installed version of Visual Studio and the associated compiler
tools (essentially replicating the environment setup performed by a
"Developer Command Prompt"). This should find the most recent VS2015 or
VS2017 installation. Output from these scripts are used by the Makefile
to define compiler and linker pathnames and -I and -L arguments.

The build produces .pdb files for both debug and release builds.

Note: This commit was squashed from an organic series of commits
developed between 2016 and 2018 in Git for Windows' `master` branch.
This combined commit eliminates the obsolete commits related to fetching
NuGet packages for third party libraries. It is difficult to use NuGet
packages for C/C++ sources because they may be built by earlier versions
of the MSVC compiler and have CRT version and linking issues.

Additionally, the C/C++ NuGet packages that we were using tended to not
be updated concurrently with the sources.  And in the case of cURL and
OpenSSL, this could expose us to security issues.

Helped-by: Yue Lin Ho <b8732003@student.nsysu.edu.tw>
Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-25 10:46:57 -07:00
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builtin cache-tree/blame: avoid reusing the DEBUG constant 2019-06-20 14:03:05 -07:00
ci Merge branch 'sg/ci-libsvn-perl' 2019-05-19 16:45:31 +09:00
compat msvc: support building Git using MS Visual C++ 2019-06-25 10:46:57 -07:00
contrib list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters 2019-05-29 11:05:34 -07:00
Documentation The second batch 2019-06-17 10:16:10 -07:00
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git-gui
gitk-git
gitweb
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po Merge branch 'fr_review' of git://github.com/jnavila/git 2019-06-07 16:51:09 +08:00
ppc *.[ch]: manually align parameter lists 2019-05-05 15:20:10 +09:00
refs
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sha1dc sha1dc: update from upstream 2019-05-14 16:45:01 +09:00
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templates
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advice.c
advice.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
alias.c
alias.h
alloc.c object_as_type: initialize commit-graph-related fields of 'struct commit' 2019-01-27 16:55:57 -08:00
alloc.h
apply.c fill_stat_cache_info(): prepare for an fsmonitor fix 2019-05-28 12:43:42 -07:00
apply.h
archive-tar.c
archive-zip.c
archive.c Merge branch 'en/merge-directory-renames' 2019-05-09 00:37:22 +09:00
archive.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
argv-array.c
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attr.h Make git_check_attr() a void function 2018-09-12 15:15:34 -07:00
azure-pipelines.yml
banned.h
base85.c
bisect.c
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blame.c Merge branch 'en/merge-directory-renames' 2019-05-09 00:37:22 +09:00
blame.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
blob.c
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branch.c Merge branch 'nd/merge-quit' 2019-06-13 13:19:41 -07:00
branch.h Merge branch 'nd/merge-quit' 2019-06-13 13:19:41 -07:00
builtin.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
bulk-checkin.c
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bundle.c bundle verify: error out if called without an object database 2019-05-28 13:04:14 -07:00
bundle.h
cache-tree.c cache-tree/blame: avoid reusing the DEBUG constant 2019-06-20 14:03:05 -07:00
cache-tree.h
cache.h fill_stat_cache_info(): prepare for an fsmonitor fix 2019-05-28 12:43:42 -07:00
chdir-notify.c
chdir-notify.h
check-builtins.sh
check_bindir
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color.c
color.h
column.c
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combine-diff.c
command-list.txt
commit-graph.c Merge branch 'js/commit-graph-parse-leakfix' 2019-05-19 16:45:28 +09:00
commit-graph.h
commit-reach.c
commit-reach.h
commit-slab-decl.h
commit-slab-impl.h
commit-slab.h
commit.c Merge branch 'tb/unexpected' 2019-05-09 00:37:25 +09:00
commit.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
common-main.c
config.c Merge branch 'jh/trace2-sid-fix' 2019-05-13 23:50:31 +09:00
config.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
config.mak.dev
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configure.ac
connect.c
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connected.c
connected.h
convert.c
convert.h
copy.c
COPYING
credential-cache--daemon.c
credential-cache.c
credential-store.c
credential.c
credential.h
csum-file.c
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ctype.c
daemon.c
date.c
decorate.c
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delta-islands.c
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detect-compiler
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diff-lib.c mark_fsmonitor_valid(): mark the index as changed if needed 2019-05-28 12:43:43 -07:00
diff-no-index.c
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diff.h Merge branch 'sb/format-patch-base-patch-id-fix' 2019-06-13 13:18:46 -07:00
diffcore-break.c
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diffcore-order.c
diffcore-pickaxe.c
diffcore-rename.c
diffcore.h
dir-iterator.c
dir-iterator.h
dir.c Merge branch 'jk/untracked-cache-more-fixes' 2019-05-09 00:37:28 +09:00
dir.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
editor.c
entry.c fill_stat_cache_info(): prepare for an fsmonitor fix 2019-05-28 12:43:42 -07:00
environment.c
exec-cmd.c
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fast-import.c fast-import: support 'encoding' commit header 2019-05-14 16:48:56 +09:00
fetch-negotiator.c
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fetch-object.c
fetch-object.h
fetch-pack.c Merge branch 'jt/clone-server-option' 2019-05-30 10:50:46 -07:00
fetch-pack.h
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fsck.c
fsck.h
fsmonitor.c fsmonitor: force a refresh after the index was discarded 2019-05-08 12:03:48 +09:00
fsmonitor.h mark_fsmonitor_valid(): mark the index as changed if needed 2019-05-28 12:43:43 -07:00
fuzz-commit-graph.c
fuzz-pack-headers.c
fuzz-pack-idx.c
generate-cmdlist.sh
gettext.c
gettext.h *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using spatch 2019-05-05 15:20:06 +09:00
git-add--interactive.perl
git-archimport.perl
git-bisect.sh
git-compat-util.h Merge branch 'cc/access-on-aix-workaround' 2019-05-13 23:50:35 +09:00
git-cvsexportcommit.perl cvsexportcommit: force crlf translation 2019-05-07 18:23:27 +09:00
git-cvsimport.perl
git-cvsserver.perl
git-difftool--helper.sh mergetool: use get_merge_tool function 2019-05-13 23:11:59 +09:00
git-filter-branch.sh
git-instaweb.sh
git-legacy-stash.sh
git-merge-octopus.sh
git-merge-one-file.sh
git-merge-resolve.sh
git-mergetool--lib.sh Merge branch 'dl/difftool-mergetool' 2019-05-19 16:45:30 +09:00
git-mergetool.sh mergetool: use get_merge_tool function 2019-05-13 23:11:59 +09:00
git-p4.py Merge branch 'mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix' 2019-06-17 10:15:19 -07:00
git-parse-remote.sh
git-quiltimport.sh
git-rebase--preserve-merges.sh rebase: fold git-rebase--common into the -p backend 2019-05-15 10:57:32 +09:00
git-request-pull.sh request-pull: warn if the remote object is not the same as the local one 2019-05-28 13:06:25 -07:00
git-send-email.perl Merge branch 'ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix' 2019-06-13 13:18:46 -07:00
git-sh-i18n.sh
git-sh-setup.sh
git-submodule.sh Merge branch 'km/empty-repo-is-still-a-repo' 2019-05-09 00:37:23 +09:00
git-svn.perl
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git-web--browse.sh
git.c Merge branch 'po/git-help-on-git-itself' 2019-06-17 10:15:19 -07:00
git.rc
gpg-interface.c
gpg-interface.h
graph.c
graph.h
grep.c grep: fail if call could output and name is null 2019-05-28 10:57:07 -07:00
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hash.h
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help.c Merge branch 'jk/help-unknown-ref-fix' 2019-06-13 13:19:42 -07:00
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hex.c
http-backend.c
http-fetch.c
http-push.c Merge branch 'cb/http-push-null-in-message-fix' 2019-05-19 16:45:35 +09:00
http-walker.c Merge branch 'bc/hash-transition-16' 2019-04-25 16:41:17 +09:00
http.c Make fread/fwrite-like functions in http.c more like fread/fwrite. 2019-05-08 12:15:25 +09:00
http.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
ident.c
imap-send.c
INSTALL
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interdiff.h
iterator.h
json-writer.c
json-writer.h
khash.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
kwset.c
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levenshtein.c
levenshtein.h
LGPL-2.1
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line-range.c
line-range.h
linear-assignment.c
linear-assignment.h
list-objects-filter-options.c list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters 2019-05-29 11:05:34 -07:00
list-objects-filter-options.h list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters 2019-05-29 11:05:34 -07:00
list-objects-filter.c list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters 2019-05-29 11:05:34 -07:00
list-objects-filter.h
list-objects.c
list-objects.h
list.h
ll-merge.c
ll-merge.h
lockfile.c
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log-tree.c
log-tree.h
ls-refs.c upload-pack: strip namespace from symref data 2019-05-28 10:02:00 -07:00
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mailinfo.c
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mailmap.c
mailmap.h
Makefile msvc: support building Git using MS Visual C++ 2019-06-25 10:46:57 -07:00
match-trees.c
mem-pool.c
mem-pool.h
merge-blobs.c
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merge-recursive.c Merge branch 'en/merge-directory-renames-fix' 2019-06-06 14:03:36 -07:00
merge-recursive.h
merge.c
mergesort.c
mergesort.h
midx.c midx: add packs to packed_git linked list 2019-05-07 13:48:42 +09:00
midx.h midx: pass a repository pointer 2019-05-07 13:48:41 +09:00
name-hash.c
notes-cache.c
notes-cache.h
notes-merge.c
notes-merge.h
notes-utils.c
notes-utils.h
notes.c Merge branch 'en/merge-directory-renames' 2019-05-09 00:37:22 +09:00
notes.h notes: correct documentation of format_display_notes() 2019-05-07 19:08:10 +09:00
object-store.h Merge branch 'ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix' 2019-06-17 10:15:14 -07:00
object.c
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oidmap.c
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oidset.c
oidset.h
pack-bitmap-write.c
pack-bitmap.c Merge branch 'bc/hash-transition-16' 2019-04-25 16:41:17 +09:00
pack-bitmap.h
pack-check.c
pack-objects.c
pack-objects.h
pack-revindex.c
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packfile.c Merge branch 'mh/import-transport-fd-fix' 2019-06-13 13:19:43 -07:00
packfile.h Merge branch 'nd/sha1-name-c-wo-the-repository' 2019-05-09 00:37:25 +09:00
pager.c
parse-options-cb.c Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt' 2019-05-30 10:50:44 -07:00
parse-options.c Merge branch 'nd/diff-parseopt' 2019-05-30 10:50:44 -07:00
parse-options.h Merge branch 'js/parseopt-unknown-cb-returns-an-enum' 2019-05-19 16:45:34 +09:00
patch-delta.c
patch-ids.c format-patch: make --base patch-id output stable 2019-05-08 19:27:43 +09:00
patch-ids.h format-patch: make --base patch-id output stable 2019-05-08 19:27:43 +09:00
path.c
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pathspec.c
pathspec.h
pkt-line.c pkt-line: drop 'const'-ness of a param to set_packet_header() 2019-05-16 13:29:06 +09:00
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preload-index.c mark_fsmonitor_valid(): mark the index as changed if needed 2019-05-28 12:43:43 -07:00
pretty.c
pretty.h
prio-queue.c
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progress.c Merge branch 'sg/progress-off-by-one-fix' 2019-05-30 10:50:45 -07:00
progress.h Merge branch 'sg/overlong-progress-fix' 2019-04-25 16:41:19 +09:00
prompt.c
prompt.h
protocol.c
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quote.c
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range-diff.c
range-diff.h
reachable.c
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read-cache.c Merge branch 'js/fsmonitor-unflake' 2019-06-17 10:15:18 -07:00
README.md
rebase-interactive.c
rebase-interactive.h
ref-filter.c Merge branch 'dr/ref-filter-push-track-fix' 2019-05-09 00:37:26 +09:00
ref-filter.h
reflog-walk.c
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refs.c Merge branch 'nd/worktree-name-sanitization' 2019-06-13 13:19:40 -07:00
refs.h Merge branch 'nd/worktree-name-sanitization' 2019-06-13 13:19:40 -07:00
refspec.c
refspec.h
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remote-curl.c i18n: fix typos found during l10n for git 2.22.0 2019-06-03 11:10:53 -07:00
remote-testsvn.c
remote.c Merge branch 'dr/ref-filter-push-track-fix' 2019-05-09 00:37:26 +09:00
remote.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
replace-object.c
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repository.c
repository.h
rerere.c
rerere.h
resolve-undo.c
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revision.c revision: keep topo-walk free of unintersting commits 2019-05-28 10:39:49 -07:00
revision.h
run-command.c
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send-pack.c
send-pack.h
sequencer.c Merge branch 'pw/rebase-edit-message-for-replayed-merge' 2019-06-13 13:19:43 -07:00
sequencer.h Merge branch 'pw/clean-sequencer-state-upon-final-commit' 2019-05-13 23:50:35 +09:00
serve.c
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server-info.c Merge branch 'ew/server-info-remove-crufts' 2019-06-17 10:15:15 -07:00
setup.c
sh-i18n--envsubst.c
sha1-array.c
sha1-array.h
sha1-file.c Merge branch 'ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix' 2019-06-17 10:15:14 -07:00
sha1-lookup.c
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sha1-name.c Merge branch 'jk/get-oid-indexed-object-name' 2019-05-19 16:45:35 +09:00
sha1dc_git.c
sha1dc_git.h
shallow.c
shell.c
shortlog.h
sideband.c
sideband.h
sigchain.c
sigchain.h
split-index.c
split-index.h
strbuf.c
strbuf.h
streaming.c
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string-list.c
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sub-process.c
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submodule-config.c
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submodule.c submodule: drop unused prefix parameter from some functions 2019-05-13 14:22:54 +09:00
submodule.h submodule: drop unused prefix parameter from some functions 2019-05-13 14:22:54 +09:00
symlinks.c
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tar.h
tempfile.c
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thread-utils.c
thread-utils.h
tmp-objdir.c
tmp-objdir.h
trace.c
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trace2.c Merge branch 'jh/trace2' 2019-05-13 23:50:35 +09:00
trace2.h trace2: rename environment variables to GIT_TRACE2* 2019-05-28 10:20:34 -07:00
trailer.c
trailer.h
transport-helper.c Merge branch 'mh/import-transport-fd-fix' 2019-06-13 13:19:43 -07:00
transport-internal.h
transport.c Merge branch 'jt/clone-server-option' 2019-05-09 00:37:25 +09:00
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tree-diff.c
tree-walk.c
tree-walk.h Merge branch 'dl/no-extern-in-func-decl' 2019-05-13 23:50:32 +09:00
tree.c
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unicode-width.h Merge branch 'bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa' 2019-06-17 10:15:18 -07:00
unimplemented.sh
unix-socket.c
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unpack-trees.c Merge branch 'jt/batch-fetch-blobs-in-diff' 2019-04-25 16:41:19 +09:00
unpack-trees.h
upload-pack.c Merge branch 'jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces' 2019-06-17 10:15:15 -07:00
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url.c
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urlmatch.c
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usage.c
userdiff.c userdiff: fix grammar and style issues 2019-05-29 09:50:31 -07:00
userdiff.h
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varint.c
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version.c
version.h
versioncmp.c
walker.c
walker.h
wildmatch.c
wildmatch.h
worktree.c Merge branch 'nd/corrupt-worktrees' 2019-06-13 13:19:41 -07:00
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wrap-for-bin.sh
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write-or-die.c
ws.c
wt-status.c Merge branch 'jk/unused-params-final-batch' 2019-06-13 13:19:34 -07:00
wt-status.h
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zlib.c

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See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see Documentation/giteveryday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and Documentation/git-.txt for documentation of each command. If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be read with man gittutorial or git help tutorial, and the documentation of each command with man git-<commandname> or git help <commandname>.

CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt (man gitcvs-migration or git help cvs-migration if git is installed).

The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission). To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at https://public-inbox.org/git/, http://marc.info/?l=git and other archival sites.

Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list git-security@googlegroups.com.

The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that list the current status of various development topics to the mailing list. The discussion following them give a good reference for project status, development direction and remaining tasks.

The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your mood):

  • random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
  • stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang.
  • "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
  • "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks