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Highlights from Git 2.54
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The open-source Git project released Git 2.54 with features and bug fixes from over 137 contributors, 66 of them new.
Key facts
- The open-source Git project released Git 2.54 with features and bug fixes from over 137 contributors, 66 of them new
- Since the last Git release they wrote about was Git 2.52, this blog post covers the highlights from both the 2.53 and 2.54 releases
- Git’s HTTP transport now handles HTTP 429 “Too Many Requests” responses
- Git 2.54 introduces a new experimental command that is designed for exactly these simpler cases: git history
Summary
To celebrate this most recent release, here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. Since the last Git release they wrote about was Git 2.52, this blog post covers the highlights from both the 2.53 and 2.54 releases. The Git project has a long history of providing tools to rewrite your repository’s history. git rebase –i is the most well-known, and it’s remarkably flexible: you can reorder, squash, edit, and drop commits. For simpler cases, all of that machinery can feel like overkill.