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Taylor Blau

@ttaylorr

Senior Software Engineer at GitHub working on Git

Highlights from Git 2.35

Highlights from Git 2.35

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

January 24, 2022
Highlights from Git 2.34

Highlights from Git 2.34

To celebrate this most recent release, here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

November 15, 2021
Highlights from Git 2.33

Highlights from Git 2.33

The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here's a look at some of the most interesting features and changes.

August 16, 2021
Scaling monorepo maintenance

Scaling monorepo maintenance

At GitHub, we serve some of the largest Git repositories on the planet. We also serve some of the fastest-growing repositories. Each day, the largest repositories we host become even larger. About a year ago, we noticed that the job we use to repack Git repositories began hitting our self-imposed timeouts on larger repositories. Even […]

April 29, 2021
Highlights from Git 2.31

Highlights from Git 2.31

The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.29 had just been released. Two versions later, let’s take a look at the most interesting features and changes that have happened since. Introducing git maintenance […]

March 15, 2021
Git clone vulnerability announced

Git clone vulnerability announced

Today, the Git project released new versions to address CVE-2021-21300: a security vulnerability in the delayed checkout mechanism used by Git LFS during git clone operations affecting versions 2.15 and newer. These updates address an issue where a specially crafted repository can execute code during a git clone on case-insensitive filesystems which support symbolic links […]

March 9, 2021
Highlights from Git 2.29

Highlights from Git 2.29

The open source Git project just released Git 2.29 with features and bug fixes from over 89 contributors, 24 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.28 had just been released. One version later, let’s take a look at the most interesting features and changes that have happened since then. Experimental SHA-256 support Git 2.29 […]

October 19, 2020
Highlights from Git 2.28

Highlights from Git 2.28

The open source Git project just released Git 2.28 with features and bug fixes from over 58 contributors, 13 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.26 was released. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since then. Introducing init.defaultBranch […]

July 27, 2020