#Git

Git 2.45 was released on April 29, 2024, adding preliminary support for the reftable reference-storage backend, experimental SHA-1 to SHA-256 interoperability, and quality-of-life improvements like a cherry-pick --empty option. Here is what changed.

Git 2.42 was released on August 21, 2023, adding a faster boundary-based object traversal, reference jump lists that speed up excluding references during pushes, and a new hook to preserve precious unreachable objects from garbage collection. Here is what changed.

Git 2.39 was released on December 12, 2022, making git shortlog aggregate commits by arbitrary format specifiers, adding a git repack --expire-to option to keep an external backup of pruned objects, and speeding up the connectivity check during pushes. Here is what changed.