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Explore essential updates about Git—and the impact on GitHub—to stay informed about how new releases affect core functionalities, introduce new features and improvements, and fix bugs. Get detailed explanations of how these updates can enhance workflow efficiency, improve collaboration, and streamline version control processes.

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Celebrating 15 years of Git: An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano

GitHub is built on Git, and as Git celebrates its 15th anniversary, our own Jeff King interviews Git maintainer Junio Hamano about Git’s impact over the years.

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Highlights from Git 2.26

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout

Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.

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Highlights from Git 2.25

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Multiple Git vulnerabilities in 2.24 and older

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities in Git 2.24 and older.

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Highlights from Git 2.24

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Highlights from Git 2.23

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Highlights from Git 2.22

A look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

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Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab

Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.