Highlights from Git 2.52
github.blog
The open source Git project just released Git 2.52. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
    3·
    5 hours ago

    The core functionality behind git last-modified was written by GitHub over many years (originally called blame-tree in GitHub’s fork of Git), and is what has powered our tree-level blame since 2012. Earlier this year, we shared those patches with engineers at GitLab, who tidied up years of development into a reviewable series of patches which landed in this release.

    The free software ethos at its finest, this is enough to make a grown man cry 🥹

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    11·
    14 hours ago

    PSA

    git the FLOSS software is completely independent of github, the MS-owned web platform.
    git was originally written by Linus Torvalds and can be selfhosted easily without additional software. Or be used locally.