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As pointed out in [1] our website still claims we support Windows 7. We don't. Teach the website about this change. [1] git-for-windows/git#5280 (comment) Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <[email protected]>
Our current requirements page only mentions requirements for Intel CPUs, but we also support ARM64 now. The requirements on ARM64 are a bit different from existing CPU architectures, so we should explain them, too. Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <[email protected]>
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Nov 26, 2024
| @@ -46,9 +46,12 @@ | |||
| <h1 id="prerequisites">Prerequisites</h1> | |||
| <p>This page lists the prerequisites required to run <a href="https://gitforwindows.org/">Git for Windows</a>.</p> | |||
| <h2 id="windows-version">Windows version</h2> | |||
| <p>Git for Windows requires Windows 8.1 or later. The last version to support Windows 7, 8, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 was <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.46.2.windows.1">v2.46.2</a>. The last version to support Windows Vista and Server 2008 was <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.37.1.windows.1">v2.37.1</a>. The last version of Git for Windows to support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.10.0.windows.1">v2.10.0</a>.</p> | |||
| <p>Git for Windows requires Windows 8.1 or later on i686 and x86_64 CPU architectures. The last version to support Windows 7, 8, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 was <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.46.2.windows.1">v2.46.2</a>. The last version to support Windows Vista and Server 2008 was <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.37.1.windows.1">v2.37.1</a>. The last version of Git for Windows to support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is <a href="https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.10.0.windows.1">v2.10.0</a>.</p> | |||
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I decided to mirror the architecture names from 32-bit.html for consistency.
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