[moserware]

It's nice to see Microsoft supporting this now that they've committed to Git in TFS/VSO. It's also good to have the latest version of Git.

Git on Windows has been stuck at 1.9.* for awhile and always in "preview" because it was never really meant for production usage since the main contributor wasn't able to spend much time on it (and even then, he didn't primarily use Windows): http://episodes.gitminutes.com/2014/04/gitminutes-28-johanne...

I applaud the work that Johannes Schindelin (and others) did to get Git on Windows for these past years of increasing usage and look forward to this project taking it to the next level.

[gonvaled]

Oooops! I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (just done apt-get update/upgrade) and my git version is 1.9.1 ...

[moserware]

On Ubuntu, you can get the latest version via:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install git
  git --version

Note that this is at "git version 2.5.0"

This updated Git for Windows project brings that same version to Windows.

[Aldo_MX]

keyword: LTS

in contrast, Ubuntu 15.04 has 2.1.4