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And still the windows build remains 1.9.4. Am I missing something?



The Windows build is made by the msysGit team (https://msysgit.github.io/), which is a separate team with a chronic lack of manpower.

The Git situation on Windows is somewhat like openssh versus portable openssh, or libressl versus portable libressl: it's originally developed for one system, and a separate project ports it to another system. It's a bit harder for Git on Windows, since Git was written expecting a POSIX system (parts of Git are written in shell or Perl, for instance), and Windows is different enough to give it trouble.

If you want Git on Windows to be more up-to-date, give them a help; I'm sure they'll appreciate it.





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