Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews

Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system.

Git 2.47 introduces a new experimental feature for incremental multi-pack indexes. This change is still experimental and the multi-pack reachability bitmaps feature will further extend the capabilities in the future.

Git 2.47 also introduces "for-each-ref" to more quickly find base branches. Git 2.47 also brings improved support for its "reftable" reference backend, better unit testing, and the Git mergetool command has a new tool configuration for Visual Studio Code.

When going through the Git 2.47 release announcement I was also curious about the change:

* The reviewing guidelines document now explicitly encourages people to give positive reviews and how.

The documentation patch is to the code re viewing guidelines to encourage more positive reviews:

"I saw some contributors hesitate to give a positive review on patches by their coworkers. When written well, a positive review does not have to be a hollow "looks good" that rubber stamps an useless approval on a topic that is not interesting to others.

Let's add a few paragraphs to encourage positive reviews, which is a bit harder to give than a review to point out things to improve."

See this patch for the new recommendations for providing more positive code reviews.

Further insight into the prominent Git 2.47 changes can be found on the GitHub blog.