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release: include the GCM compatibility wrapper for WSL users - #1009
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Some users hard-code Git Credential Manager's location in their WSL configuration. When it moved from `/mingw64/bin/` to `/ucrt64/bin/`, these configurations stopped working. To help those users, we recently added an opt-in wrapper in git-for-windows/MINGW-packages#224 that warns about the deprecated path and delegates to the new location. Let's include this wrapper in our release builds. Assisted-by: GPT-6.1 Sol Assisted-by: Gemini Argon Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Some WSL users configured Git Credential Manager with an absolute Windows path under
C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin. The move to UCRT64 broke those configurations, so let's give affected users a way to keep working while they update their setup.The compatibility wrapper added in git-for-windows/MINGW-packages#224 forwards requests to the new location and warns about the deprecated path. Let's opt in for the Azure release build by setting
WITH_MINGW64_GCM_WRAPPERso our Windows installer includes that transition help.