[New cygwin version] cygwin-3.5.0

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Cygwin 3.5.0 release

https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin/releases/tag/cygwin-3.5.0

[dscho]

I started with the MSYS2 runtime rebase here: msys2/msys2-runtime#194

[rimrul]

Just to be clear: The plan is to integrate this after Git for Windows 2.44.0, right?

[dscho]

Just to be clear: The plan is to integrate this after Git for Windows 2.44.0, right?

Yes. This is my current thinking:

I was considering to upgrade MSYS2 runtime to v3.5.0 in time for Git for Windows v2.44.0, even if it was just released end of January. But I've decided not to rush this, for at least the following reasons:

• This upgrade has huge implications: Windows 7/8 support will be dropped.
• I immediately hit a bug in that Cygwin version, where calling (non-Cygwin/MSYS) git.exe from the MSYS2 Bash would always report success, even if the exit code of the git.exe process was non-zero.
• Cygwin v3.5.0 has been out for less than two weeks, and given the already-found bug, it seems prudent to give it much more time to show (and resolve) bugs.
• There is still this vexing MSYS2 runtime hang in our Windows/ARM64 pipeline, it happens even with MSYS2 runtime v3.5.0.

[dscho]

I backported a couple of the console-related fixes from v3.5.0 to v3.4.10: git-for-windows/MSYS2-packages#158. My plan is to deploy and merge that PR before releasing Git for Windows v2.44.0-rc1.

[rimrul]

Superseded by #4838