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Yeah, that's something that should be clarified. I'm almost certain `winget upgrade git` will run the uninstaller first...


It shouldn't. So much of the (ugly, hideous) complexity of the MSI engine is specifically there because of presumptions that installers don't uninstall previous versions but generally upgrade in place. winget should just defer to MSI norms here for Git for Windows as Git for Windows is a mostly normal MSI-based installer still.




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