Highlights from Git 2.48
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The open source Git project just released Git 2.48. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
  • FizzyOrange
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Git has four build systems?? Meson seems overkill if you already have CMake too. The only thing it really adds is that it’s nicer to write (CMake is somewhere between Bash and PHP in sanity), but if you have to write CMake anyway…

  • uranibaba@lemmy.world
    11·
    17 hours ago
    • When “git fetch $remote” notices that refs/remotes/$remote/HEAD is missing and discovers what branch the other side points with its HEAD, refs/remotes/$remote/HEAD is updated to point to it.

    That is nice.

  • ethancedwards8English
    2·
    13 hours ago

    If one wants to help with Git development, where would they start?

    • FizzyOrange
      8·
      8 hours ago

      Yep, whenever they fix a bug it’s added in a new flag that nobody knows about.

      git --enable-sane-behaviour
    • kbal@fedia.io
      1·
      9 hours ago

      As a casual git user I imagine the process normally goes something like this:

      1. Development happens.
      2. New feature makes it into the release version of git.
      3. New version makes it into the various linux distro repositories.
      4. People who run big git repos install the update.
      5. Serious nerds hear about it and use the feature.
      6. Many years pass.
      7. I learn about it, if it’s widely used enough.