Git 2.8.2 Popular Source Code Management System Released with Over 18 Bug Fixes | Linux Today

Git 2.8.2 Popular Source Code Management System Released with Over 18 Bug Fixes

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Marius Nestor
May 2, 2016

Fixes since Git 2.8.1 include support for the “git send-email” command to parse an alias file in the mailrc format that contained trailing whitespaces, support for the “git commit” command to read in the SQUASH_MSG variable, which displayed the log messages from all the squashed commits, as well as build updates for Microsoft Visual C++.

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Marius Nestor

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