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New features from the last few versions of Git

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Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by adelcambre »

nmjohn wrote: post #29
TekMol wrote: post #13

The post itself is informative. But the title is deliberately confusing. This is not the release announcement. We should not let GitHub take over the Git brand like they try to do with blog posts like this one. Most coders these days say they use git while in reality the have no clue how it works and how to use it. They just use the buttons of tools and services built on top of it and hope for the best. We would all…

> We should not let GitHub take over the Git brand like they try to do with blog posts like this one. Is there a similar blog post by the actual git team sharing this information? If so, let's link to that - but as I am not aware of one, I do appreciate github's git release announcements because they are typically a much easier way to learn about new git features than reading the entire release emails [0] [0]: https:…

> Is there a similar blog post by the actual git team sharing this information?

Peff is a member of the Core Git team and is primarily working on open source git.

Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by Nadya »

sytse wrote: post #17
paradite wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay. I guess if you say so then I was just being paranoid and overreacting.

I'm not saying that, just giving our point of view. BTW I still meet a lot of people that think GitHub is open source instead of them hosting open source.

Which was one of the top 3 reasons I chose to host my projects on GitLab instead of GitHub. Thank you for supporting OSS by being OSS yourself!

Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by ShabbosGoy »

systems wrote: post #24
Z0rb wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know right?! What kind of response is that?

I cant tell if this serious or sarcastic I did see many who use git via say sourcetree, they do just click button to push and pull .. and they dont know much more I dont think this is bad though

I would have an aneurysm if one of my coworkers or teammates didn’t know how to use git. The documentation is widely available, there are exactly zero excuses available.

Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by Crespyl »

Froyoh wrote: post #26

I'll never be able to remember all of these new flags they add in. Too bad all these nifty features are all "opt-in".

With git it's usually possible to set your config file to enable a given feature by default, unless you override it with a flag.

The `--color-moved` one for example can be toggled on with `git config --global diff.colorMoved default`.

Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by bobbyi_settv »

TekMol wrote: post #13

The post itself is informative. But the title is deliberately confusing. This is not the release announcement. We should not let GitHub take over the Git brand like they try to do with blog posts like this one. Most coders these days say they use git while in reality the have no clue how it works and how to use it. They just use the buttons of tools and services built on top of it and hope for the best. We would all…

I was going to say that just from the title, they're not really representing themselves as being git, but then in the body of the post, they actually use "us" to refer to git

> Git v2.16 adds a new fsmonitor hook that relies on the operating system to tell us what has changed. Doing so allows us to avoid the repeated stat()

Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by sytse »

Nadya wrote: post #32
sytse wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying that, just giving our point of view. BTW I still meet a lot of people that think GitHub is open source instead of them hosting open source.

Which was one of the top 3 reasons I chose to host my projects on GitLab instead of GitHub. Thank you for supporting OSS by being OSS yourself!

You're welcome. Thanks for using GitLab. BTW We refer to ourselves as an open core company since we also sell proprietary features.

Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by dang »

TekMol wrote: post #13

The post itself is informative. But the title is deliberately confusing. This is not the release announcement. We should not let GitHub take over the Git brand like they try to do with blog posts like this one. Most coders these days say they use git while in reality the have no clue how it works and how to use it. They just use the buttons of tools and services built on top of it and hope for the best. We would all…

OK, we've changed the title to a representative phrase from the first paragraph.

Re: New features from the last few versions of Git

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Post by avar »

I just wanted to add as another Git developer (with patches in this release and others) and with no affiliation with GitHub, that this skepticism of their motives that's taking up 1/2 the comments here is entirely unwarranted.

I think it's also much better for a general audience like HN to link to these summary posts made by GitHub, Bitbucket and others than to the official release notes.

The official release notes are quite terse, and much too long for someone who just wants a quick summary without getting into all the obscure details. They're also mostly ordered in whatever order Junio happened to integrate the patches, not by some order of importance or user-visibility. They also never show practical examples of how the feature can be used.

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