Add a link to download MinGIT on Git downloads.

[pratikpc]

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases

Git for Windows now also distributes MinGit where they reduce some of the bloatware Git has

It would be nice to see MinGit mentioned here https://git-scm.com/download/win

An article on MinGIT

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[pedrorijo91]

hey @pratikpc

I'm not sure we should add MinGit:

MinGit: Git for Windows applications The idea is to provide a version of Git for Windows that does not provide an interactive user interface (...)

so it doesn't seem to be very useful or user-friendly at least for most Windows users

furthermore:

Another big new feature since Git for Windows 2.8 is MinGit: with every new Git for Windows version, we now offer .zip archives of “Git for Windows applications”.

so it seems to come included? Not sure if your suggestion is to have another link to download just MinGit or just to add a quick sentence letting users know about MinGit?

[pratikpc]

so it seems to come included?

Sadly, no. Windows isn't that generous yet. It's an article from the Azure Devops team so I presume at one point they did provide Mingit pre-installed with one of the Azure CLI binaries. I actually put the link there because there is another mingit project that does something completely different and I did not want to cause major confusion.

so it doesn't seem to be very useful or user-friendly at least for most Windows users

That is indeed true. I think a lot of Windows users install Git not just for Git but also for Git Bash and other utilities. But I, on the other hand really wasn't very interested in the other utilities. For example, I prefer Notepad for interactive rebase over the default which is vi I think and didn't want Gitk (I prefer GitHub Desktop and GitKraken more).

Mingit does ship with a lot of Linux utilities like wc, awk, cat etc.

Not sure if your suggestion is to have another link to download just MinGit or just to add a quick sentence letting users know about MinGit?

I was thinking about a download link but yeah, a quick sentence would be nice too! Something like You can use Mingit if you want a smaller binary and don't want Git-Bash etc..

[pedrorijo91]

sorry, totally missed your reply. not sure what's the current status of MinGit, but if you see it's still a good solution, feel free to create a MR @pratikpc :)

[plashenkov]

I'm glad I found MinGit. Even PortableGit requires some strange actions like post-install.bat, etc. While MinGit doesn't (well, it looks so). All I need is to use git in VS Code and run basic commands from command line, like git clone, etc. It would be great if info about MinGit was more visible.

[dscho]

👋 from the Git for Windows maintainer.

MinGit is indeed not intended for end users, and advertising it to end users in spite of this would only have the effect of many users asking for more features, essentially asking for MinGit to become PortableGit. Therefore, going through with this idea would increase the maintenance burden, which I would prefer people to be less enthusiastic about, honestly.

[pratikpc]

@dscho makes sense

[dscho]

I'll close this ticket fore aforementioned reasons.