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Explore essential updates about Git—and the impact on GitHub—to stay informed about how new releases affect core functionalities, introduce new features and improvements, and fix bugs. Get detailed explanations of how these updates can enhance workflow efficiency, improve collaboration, and streamline version control processes.

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Commits are snapshots, not diffs

Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…

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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…

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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…

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Git Credential Manager Core: Building a universal authentication experience

Authentication is a critical component to your daily development. When working in open source, you need to prove that you have rights to update a branch with git push. Additionally…

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Git credential helper vulnerability announced (Update)

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26.1 and older.

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Git credential helper vulnerability announced

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26 and older.

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Celebrating 15 years of Git: An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano

GitHub is built on Git, and as Git celebrates its 15th anniversary, our own Jeff King interviews Git maintainer Junio Hamano about Git’s impact over the years.

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Highlights from Git 2.26

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout

Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.

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Highlights from Git 2.25

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Multiple Git vulnerabilities in 2.24 and older

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities in Git 2.24 and older.

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Highlights from Git 2.24

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Highlights from Git 2.23

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Highlights from Git 2.22

A look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab

Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.