Stefan Schackow (MSFT)
Starting on November 13th 2018, and running approximately through December 14th 2018, Azure App Service will be updating the version of Git deployed on the service to version 2.19.1. This is expected to be a non-breaking update.
For information on the changes contained in the new version please see the Git release notes here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.1.txt