The 2.15.2, 2.14.9, 2.13.15, and 2.12.23 releases for GitHub Enterprise are now available for download.
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GitHub Desktop 1.5 release
The release of GitHub Desktop 1.5 includes three important improvements:
- You can now easily initiate a merge from the branch dropdown, and it’s much more intuitive which branch you’re merging and the direction of the merge.
- If you encounter a merge conflict, GitHub Desktop now guides you through the process of resolving the conflicts and completing the merge successfully.
- You can now clone, create, or add repositories to GitHub Desktop right from the repository dropdown.
GitHub now supports version 2 of the Git wire protocol. An immediate benefit of the new protocol is that it enables reference filtering on the server-side, this can reduce the number of bytes required to fulfill operations like git fetch on large repositories. [source, source, source, …]
To utilize the new protocol, your git client must be at or beyond version 2.18, released June 2018 and the protocol version must be specified in your git client configuration:
$ git config --global protocol.version 2For more information about the differences between version 1 and 2, please see the official git documentation on the changes.