Git 2.6 Is a Massive Release with Dozens of New Features, Countless Bug Fixes | Linux Today

Git 2.6 Is a Massive Release with Dozens of New Features, Countless Bug Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Sep 28, 2015

Prominent features of Git 2.6 include the ability to use an asterisk as a substring of a path component, the implementation of a new userdiff pattern definition, the addition of a new “–date=format:…” option for the “git log” command, and support for the get-mark command in “git fast-import”.

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Marius Nestor

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