Issues

Issues

• Installers do not work without graphical environment

  git-for-windows/git#6551 · opened on Nov 9, 2026

• Git for Windows upgrade to UCRT64 leaves stale http.sslCAInfo pointing to MINGW64

  git-for-windows/git#6547 · opened on Nov 6, 2026
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• [New mingw-w64-llvm version] llvm: update to 23.1.5 (#33208)

  git-for-windows/git#6546 · opened on Nov 4, 2026
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• git worktree remove follows NTFS junctions inside the worktree and deletes the target's contents

  git-for-windows/git#6545 · opened on Nov 4, 2026

• astextplain: changes to PDFs without a text layer are invisible to git diff

  git-for-windows/git#6544 · opened on Nov 4, 2026

• .exe hook in a relative hooks folder fails: "cannot spawn .git/hooks/pre-commit.exe: No such file or directory"

  git-for-windows/git#6542 · opened on Nov 3, 2026

• [New mingw-w64-llvm version] llvm: dedup some files

  git-for-windows/git#6541 · opened on Nov 3, 2026

• dd of=/dev/sdN in Git Bash silently targets raw physical drives — foot-gun for Linux-trained users (docs note / optional guard)

  git-for-windows/git#6538 · opened on Oct 31, 2026
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• 2.56.0 (UCRT64): every process starts 15-25 ms slower in locale initialisation; LC_ALL=C removes it

  git-for-windows/git#6535 · opened on Oct 29, 2026
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• [New mingw-w64-llvm version] llvm: update to 23.1.4 (#32928)

  git-for-windows/git#6523 · opened on Oct 26, 2026

• [New cygwin version] cygwin-3.6.12

  git-for-windows/git#6519 · opened on Oct 26, 2026 · Next release
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• MSYS runtime: backslash pairs in quoted arguments from a non-MSYS parent are halved; MSYS=noglob mangles embedded double quotes instead

  git-for-windows/git#6517 · opened on Oct 25, 2026

• MSYS runtime: a quoted argument (or a word with glob characters) from a non-MSYS parent is silently cut at 8,186 characters

  git-for-windows/git#6516 · opened on Oct 25, 2026
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• [New openssl version] OpenSSL 4.1.0

  git-for-windows/git#6513 · opened on Oct 23, 2026
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• git diff filter breaks interactive commands in windows terminal with Bash

  git-for-windows/git#6511 · opened on Oct 22, 2026
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• Batch fsync of loose objects never becomes the default on Windows

  git-for-windows/git#6504 · opened on Oct 21, 2026
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• Pipeline hangs forever: external command blocks in fhandler_pipe_fifo::raw_write waiting on pipe_mtx after the reader exits

  git-for-windows/git#6502 · opened on Oct 21, 2026

• Regression: symlink targets >= 260 UTF-8 bytes fail with "Result too large" despite core.longpaths=true

  git-for-windows/git#6498 · opened on Oct 19, 2026

• Unbounded recursive promisor fetch leaves ~4,000 processes and severe memory pressure on 2.56.0.windows.2

  git-for-windows/git#6496 · opened on Oct 16, 2026
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• git.exe 2.56.0.windows.2: access violation in start_command while launching rebase commit editor

  git-for-windows/git#6475 · opened on Oct 9, 2026
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• Every exec() from Git Bash leaks one kernel Token object (paged pool) until reboot: ~660k tokens / 1.3 GB after 3 weeks of agent use

  git-for-windows/git#6471 · opened on Oct 8, 2026
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• http.schannelCheckRevoke=false ignored when using HTTP proxy in 2.55.0.windows.3 (works in 2.53.0.windows.4)

  git-for-windows/git#6439 · opened on Sep 25, 2026

• bug(grep): incorrect line-ending handling

  git-for-windows/git#6437 · opened on Sep 24, 2026
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• terminate_process_tree() kills unrelated processes when a PID has been reused (no creation-time check)

  git-for-windows/git#6435 · opened on Sep 23, 2026
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• [Feature Request] Use ReFS block cloning for Git worktrees

  git-for-windows/git#6423 · opened on Sep 18, 2026
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