Git

Git’s file history queries use specialized algorithms that are tailored to common developer behavior. Level up your history spelunking skills by learning how different history modes behave and which ones to use when you need them.

This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom query index – the commit-graph file – and how to make sure it’s enabled in your repositories.

This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses how Git stores its data in packfiles using custom compression techniques.

The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.36.

Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.

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.

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

The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.

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.

We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social sharing images for repositories and other resources on GitHub.

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…

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…

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…

@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines?…