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Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub

brian m. carlson — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000

GitHub is introducing post-quantum secure key exchange methods for SSH access to better protect Git data in transit.

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How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows

Tyler McGoffin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:00:37 +0000

The GitHub CLI now supports common Git configurations for triangular workflows. Learn more about triangular workflows, how they work, and how to configure them for your Git workflows. Then, see how you can leverage these using the GitHub CLI.

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Using Semantic Versioning to Simplify Release Management

Brandon Kindred — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:22:46 +0000

Any organization that manages software libraries and applications needs a standardized way to catalog, reference, import, fix bugs and update the versions of those libraries and applications. Semantic Versioning enables developers, testers, and project managers to have a more standardized process for committing code and managing different versions. It’s benefits also extend beyond development teams […]

Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry

Jeff Hostetler — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:28:35 +0000

Use our new open source Trace2 receiver component and OpenTelemetry to capture and visualize telemetry from your Git commands.

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Highlights from Git 2.42

Taylor Blau — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:45:07 +0000

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.42.

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Scaling merge-ort across GitHub

Matt Cooper — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:00:54 +0000

GitHub switched to performing merges and rebases using merge-ort. Come behind the scenes to see why and how we made this change.

Highlights from Git 2.41

Taylor Blau — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:34:28 +0000

The open-source Git project just released Git 2.41. Take a look at our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.41.

Highlights from Git 2.40

Taylor Blau — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:57:15 +0000

The first Git release of the year is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.40.

Multi-branch pipeline management and infrastructure deployment using AWS CDK Pipelines

Iris Kraja — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:04:05 +0000

This post describes how to use the AWS CDK Pipelines module to follow a Gitflow development model using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). Software development teams often follow a strict branching strategy during a solutions development lifecycle. Newly-created branches commonly need their own isolated copy of infrastructure resources to develop new features. CDK Pipelines […]

Highlights from Git 2.39

Taylor Blau — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:50:38 +0000

Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.39.

The Story of Scalar

Derrick Stolee — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:00:12 +0000

New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.

Highlights from Git 2.38

Taylor Blau — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:01:04 +0000

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.

Scaling Git’s garbage collection

Taylor Blau — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:00:49 +0000

A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories.

Git’s database internals V: scalability

Derrick Stolee — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:05:05 +0000

This fifth and final part of our blog series exploring Git's internals shows several strategies for scaling your Git repositories that match related database sharding techniques.

Git’s database internals IV: distributed synchronization

Derrick Stolee — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:00:20 +0000

We're examining Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. This post views Git as a distributed database and looks into its synchronization techniques, specifically ‘git fetch’ and ‘git push’.

Git’s database internals III: file history queries

Derrick Stolee — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:00:42 +0000

Git’s file history queries use specialized algorithms that are tailored to common developer behavior. Level up your history spelunking skills by learning how different history modes behave and which ones to use when you need them.

Git’s database internals II: commit history queries

Derrick Stolee — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:00:11 +0000

This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom query index – the commit-graph file – and how to make sure it's enabled in your repositories.

Git’s database internals I: packed object store

Derrick Stolee — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:00:06 +0000

This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses how Git stores its data in packfiles using custom compression techniques.

Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor

Jeff Hostetler — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:00:02 +0000

Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.

Highlights from Git 2.37

Taylor Blau — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:01:23 +0000

The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.