/release: sync the mingw-w64-git package to MSYS2#153
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As part of the release process, we now synchronize the mingw-w64-git package to the MSYS2 upstream fork, enabling MSYS2 users to get Git for Windows via their regular package manager. This builds on the work from msys2/MINGW-packages#26470 which initially integrated the package definition into MSYS2. Since the GitForWindowsHelper GitHub App has no access to msys2/MINGW-packages, we: 1. Create an msys2-sync-<version> branch in git-artifacts.yml based on msys2/master with our mingw-w64-git/ content (commit message links to the git-artifacts workflow run for traceability) 2. Include this branch in the MINGW-packages.bundle 3. Push both main and the sync branch in repository-updates 4. Add a PR link to the release comment (separate paragraph asking the human driver to wait for repository-updates to finish first; the PR description links to the release workflow run) The PR link pre-populates the title and description, so the human driver just needs to click and submit. This is skipped for RC releases, matching the behavior of other repository updates. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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With this change, as part of the release process, we now synchronize the
mingw-w64-gitpackage definition to the MSYS2 project, enabling MSYS2 users to get Git for Windows via their regular package manager.This builds on the work from msys2/MINGW-packages#26470 which initially integrated the package definition into MSYS2.
Since the GitForWindowsHelper GitHub App (with whose permissions the
/releaseautomation operates) has no access to https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages, we:msys2-sync-<version>branch in thegit-artifactsworkflowMINGW-packages.bundlemainbranch) in repository-updates