Why is it that if you download Git 2.0 from the net, you always get a 1.9.4 installer package?

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There is a new project called “Git For Windows“: https://git-for-windows.github.io/

As I explained, it will replace msysgit, with the phasing out of msysgit (Q4 2015) and the new Git For Windows (Q2 2015).

It has a much more recent bash, based on the 64bits msys2 project, an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64, with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.
msys2 comes with its own installer too.

The git bash is now (with the new Git For Windows 2.6.x):

GNU bash, version 4.3.42(2)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

(as opposed to the old 32-bits msys bash from Git for Windows 1.9.5:
GNU bash, version 3.1.20(4)-release (i686-pc-msys) 2005).

This 4.3 bash comes with the latest patches.

You can install the SDK in order to build a git 2.x.
(The SDK will bring the right git sources)

Update 2015: you now can test on Windows the latest Git releases (2.6.2+ at the moment): https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/.

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