Making an installer

As the installer is made by putting together files from the Git SDK, it is advisable to update those files first. To update the packages, call pacman -Syu (caveats apply). If you want to test Git changes or make an installer from your own Git fork, you need to call cd /usr/src/git && make install (for documentation changes, make install-html and afterwards prefix=/mingw64 make -C contrib/subtree install-html - without the second make you get a error message about a missing git-subtree.html file).

To make an installer, install the SDK, run it and then issue the following commands:

cd /usr/src/build-extra
git fetch
git checkout master
./installer/release.sh <version>-test

where <version> is the Git version (please note that the <version> cannot contain dots after the numerical version: 2.7.2-hello-world is okay while 2.7.2.hello.world is not okay).