Thread:Project:Support desk/Um, why git?/reply

We are only moving to git for developer stuff (which actually happened quite a while ago, around the release of 1.19) or if you for some reason want to use an alpha release of MediaWiki on your site. Non-developers are still welcome (and encouraged) to use the tarball releases. If you have any trouble using these tarballs, please let us know what the trouble is.

Non-developers can of course use git for installing their wikis if they want (Some people like it so they can do version control for any local changes they make [We of course recommend people don't make local changes, but some people still do]), but they by no means have to

See also Thread:Project:Support desk/Non-developer's Guide to Git