I use VS 2013, which, as I know, integrates with Git using its own libraries (libgit2, libgit2sharp).
When I run Git Bash, I see the version of the installed Git is 1.8.3-previewXXX, not sure, though, whether this version was installed by Visual Studio, or at the time when I installed 3-rd party Git tools upon the VS request.
The question is: does VS use this Git 1.8.3 installed in Program Files/Git through its libraries (libgit2, libgit2sharp), or Git for VS is something separate? And, if I update Git to version 1.9.0 as available on http://git-scm.com, will it affect Visual Studio Git integration, in particular, will there be issues or will VS just use new version of Git?
The "Visual Studio Tools for Git" page does mention:
Your msysgit installed version shouldn't have any impact whatsoever on the Visual Studio Git tools; we rely on the libgit2 library, which isn't packaged with msysgit.
But if you want to be sure, instead of upgrading, you simply can unzip a more recent version of msysgit wherever you want, and add that to your %PATH%.
I use for instance PortableGit-1.9.4-preview20140929.7z.
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