Git 2.26 Released With Transport Protocol V2 Default, Continued Work Towards SHA256 Hashes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Git 2.26 Released With Transport Protocol V2 Default, Continued Work Towards SHA256 Hashes

Git 2.26 is out as the newest feature release for this distributed revision control system...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Git-2.26-Released

[tildearrow]

Lower memory footprint and performance for the git name-rev functionality.

Wait so this means it has lower performance too?

[uid313]

Very nice with improved auto-completion and CLI coloring. 👍
All usability improvements that make Git easier to use and more user friendly and much appreciated! 💖

[bug77]

Wait so this means it has lower performance too?

No, it means it lowers the memory's performance, along with footprint

[cybertraveler]

I read the list of changes for the new transport protocol. It looks like mostly low-level, design improvements to make the design cleaner and more optimized. The one actual intended feature that stood out was:

Designed with http and stateless-rpc in mind. With clear flush semantics the http remote helper can simply act as a proxy

So it sounds like they've made the software easier to build into web services. Good move as a lot of devs use git via a web front end and there are a growing number of development tools that programmatically peak into and interact with a git-controlled project to offer up their own service.

Full info here: https://git-scm.com/docs/protocol-v2/en

[CleanCut]

GitHub has an accompanying color-commentary blog post for the Git 2.26.0 release.