What's new in Git for Windows 2.11?
Dec 1, 2016Johannes Schindelin

Summary
This post details performance improvements in Git for Windows v2.11.0, including acceleration of `git rebase` startup, faster hash generation leveraging OpenSSL's Intel CPU support, faster `git add` in large worktrees, better integration of `fscache` with sparse checkouts, and more efficient internal cache for case-insensitive file names. It also introduces an experimental, faster native `difftool` and highlights the ability to build Git for Windows with Visual Studio, enabling code navigation, refactoring, debugging, and profiling tools.