Elijah Newren

@newren

Elijah Newren is a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub. He is the designer and implementer of merge-ort, Git’s default merge strategy since 2.34, author of git-filter-repo—the history rewriting tool the Git project officially recommends—and a driving force behind sparse-checkout.

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Git 2.56 is here!

Highlights from Git 2.56

The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Git 2.56 is here!