Git 2.12 Ships With A Variety Of Changes

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 25 February 2017 at 07:26 AM EST. 5 Comments
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Junio Hamano announced on Friday the release of Git 2.12.0.

Looking through the release log, Git 2.12 doesn't bring any big breakthrough feature, but has a variety of improvements throughout. Git 2.12 brings updates for its p4 sub-command, finer-grained controls for what transport protocols can be used for clone/fetch/push can now be setup via the configuration file, a variety of updates to other sub-commands, several performance improvements, build updates for Cygwin, and quite a number of fixes too.

A complete listing of Git 2.12 changes can be found via the release announcement.
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