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Git 2.9 released

357 points by bootload 10y ago

neogenix 10y ago
"In 2.9, Git's diff engine learned a new heuristic: it tries to keep hunk boundaries at blank lines, shifting the hunk "up" whenever the bottom of the hunk matches the bottom of the preceding context, until we hit a blank line. " I like the new diff improvements
- emmelaich 10y ago
  In a few (relatively) short years, git's diff has improved on all the other diffs out there.
  - darfs 10y ago
    I didnt even know about the mentioned diff-script: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highligh... It gives pretty nice output :-) I should definitely learn more about extending git!
    - Spiritus 10y ago
      There's also this https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
      - michaelmior 10y ago
        +1 for this. I started using it a few months ago for all my git diffs and I quite like the output. The biggest thing for me is being able to easily see partial line changes.
      - 0942v8653 10y ago
        Requires Node though. Not sure that many people have that installed.
        TimWolla 10y ago
        It does not: > For convenience, the recommended installation is via NPM. If you'd prefer, you may choose to do a manual installation instead. (highlighting by me) It is written in Perl.
        ymse 10y ago
        Wait, what? A perl app distributed through NPM? What's next, a node app on CPAN? Color me perplexed.
        dietrichepp 10y ago
        There are a lot of non-JS packages in NPM. The Closure compiler, for example.
    - maverickwoo 10y ago
      My favorite git diff extension is the side-by-side diff by cdiff: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdiff https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdiff It also features word-level change highlights and other common flares.
  - forrestthewoods 10y ago
    I still prefer Araxis. http://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en http://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en
    - zwieback 10y ago
      It's the absolute best, been using it for years.
      - tomtheengineer 10y ago
        Beyond Compare is the best I've found (especially for complex merges): http://www.scootersoftware.com/ http://www.scootersoftware.com/
        philliphaydon 10y ago
        Me too. I tried ataxia for about 6 months and hated it, got told about beyond compare, paid for a license after only a few days of the trial .
        forrestthewoods 10y ago
        Beyond Compare is great. I prefer Araxis. I think most people would be very happy with one of the two. Whichever you happen to prefer.
    - merb 10y ago
      I use: http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/ http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/
- broodbucket 10y ago
  Does anyone know if this only works when displaying diffs, or when generating them? It'd definitely be nice if diffs were more readable when sent to mailing lists, i.e. from git format-patch.
  - creshal 10y ago
    I'm fairly sure this applies only to the generating engine. (Otherwise it'd somehow need to reformat old diffs on the fly.)
    - avar 10y ago
      Reformat old diffs? If you're under the impression that Git stores diffs you're mistaken. It stores the full file contents and delta-compresses them later. Diffs in Git are purely a presentation format for human consumption.
      - creshal 10y ago
        > Diffs in Git are purely a presentation format for human consumption. git format-patch says hi. Obviously the diff engine changes won't apply to already generated text diffs.
  - hibbelig 10y ago
    You can pipe an existing diff through diff-so-fancy or diff-highlight: cat foo.diff | diff-so-fancy I've never tried, but that's what the doc says. [time passes] Oh yes, it seems to work. It doesn't do colors when I try it, but that's probably a misconfiguration on my side. It's how this is intended to be used.
- spb 10y ago
  I don't understand why Git can't just make the [histogram algorithm][1] default, which has better performance than the base Myers algorithm, and is already built to integrate this type of heuristics (without the bugs that caused this patch to get held back). [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32365271/whats-the-difference-between-git-diff-patience-and-git-diff-histogram http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32365271/whats-the-differ...
- wscott 10y ago
  Cool. BitKeeper internal diff, used for recording history and displaying changes has done this since 2001. https://gist.github.com/wscott/c403526ca19a210c13ad649136c15608 https://gist.github.com/wscott/c403526ca19a210c13ad649136c15... http://bkbits.net/u/bk/bugfix/?PAGE=patch&REV=3bdee65dgEb_uMb7G9RGTpivu4A1tA http://bkbits.net/u/bk/bugfix/?PAGE=patch&REV=3bdee65dgEb_uM...
- Rafert 10y ago
  Does anybody know if the new diff heuristic engine takes info from a .gitattributes file in to account? When using git diff to view changes it already makes a difference, see http://urbanautomaton.com/blog/2011/07/28/git-grep-and-language-specific-diffs/ http://urbanautomaton.com/blog/2011/07/28/git-grep-and-langu...
exDM69 10y ago
The new "rebase -x" seems really useful. It runs a test script on all patches in the history, making it useful for getting a bunch of patches tested for merging at once. This makes it easier to not have broken commits (e.g. ones that don't build) in master, which in turn makes git bisect more useful.
- bboreham 10y ago
  Can someone say how this differs from 'git rebase -i --exec' ?
  - peff 10y ago
    It doesn't. It's just more convenient to use, and we took the opportunity to make people aware of the existing `--exec` feature.
  - epmatsw 10y ago
    It can be non-interactive now. Think "git rebase master"
    - eightbit 10y ago
      git rebate... I wonder if there's also git refund, git coupon and git discount?
      - epmatsw 10y ago
        Sigh. Why can't all autocorrects handle git verbs?
mr_sturd 10y ago
> Faster and more flexible submodules I have a big, monolithic repository which I'm looking to break up in a migration to Git. If I run; git submodule split -P <path_to_sm> -b <name_of_branch> --jobs=4 Will I see the same improvements, as documented?
- umanwizard 10y ago
  > I have a big, monolithic repository which I'm looking to break up in a migration to Git. Why?
  - ansible 10y ago
    Not the OP, but if it is big enough, common tasks such as 'git status' can take seconds to complete, which is annoying. That said, I won't be using git submodules again on another project, it was a bit cumbersome for my taste.
- deleted 10y ago
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rplnt 10y ago
I haven't been following releases for a while, it's nice to see that submodules can now (2.8) be actually used. Just curious, were there any changes to sparse-checkout? It had abysmal performance in pre-2.x if you threw more elaborate paths at it, or more paths in general.
- coldpie 10y ago
  We've been using submodules for almost a decade. It's easy to make mistakes, which is bad, but they're hardly unusable.
  - rplnt 10y ago
    Well, I might overstated how slow it was to check them out in serial. They are still PITA thanks to specific behavior, missing features (both in git and in 3rd party tools such as bitbucket), etc.. The benefits oftentimes overshadow the issues with them, but there are drawbacks to using them.
fidz 10y ago
What is the algorithm of heuristics diff? Is it comparing longest-match? So, if i originally have x b n then adding x a n on top of it, it will become x a n x b n How can i know that i add x-a-n? Basically, isn't it comparing x-b-n and detect it has changes on 'b' block, so the 'b' block become a-n-x-b? Edit: My bad, didn't see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11915351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11915351. It has been explained there.
Spiritus 10y ago
Bitbucket[1] also mentions a few other new cool stuff in 2.9, like making the `--verbose` flag to `git commit` default: git config −−global commit.verbose true [1] https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/06/13/git-2-9/ https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/06/13/git-2-9/
- comfydragon 10y ago
  Maybe I'm missing something, but that link doesn't say commit.verbose is true by default, it just documents the new setting you can set.
  - sasvari 10y ago
    by default it is false. but commit.verbose is introduced by git 2.9. setting it before 2.9 didn't have any effect.
hkjgkjy 10y ago
OT The new diff script (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highligh...) is juicy indeed. It is written in Perl. The Perl interpreter is available on most UNIX systems, so that's handy. I wonder if there is any Lisp-like language that is as common, that you can write scripts and expect them to run on most systems. Would be nice since Lisp languages have very few concepts to learn...
- tveita 10y ago
  Guile may be the closest, but it failed to gain much traction despite support in some popular GNU tools like GDB. It's certainly not installed on most systems, but it at least has a tiny chance of being present.
  - creshal 10y ago
    On Arch Linux it's a dependency of both gdb and make, but it seems that other distributions go out of their way to avoid shipping it (Debian e.g. builds gdb without a hard dependency on it, and you need to install a separate make-guile package to get guile-enabled make).
  - s_kilk 10y ago
    Is guile part of the default packages on any unix-alike distribution though? The huge upside of perl is not necessarily that it's available, but that it's available by default.
- baldfat 10y ago
  I second the ability to use a Lisp language for this also (Racket Please).
- peff 10y ago
  I hope to one day push the highlighting inside of git itself. That should make it more efficient, and we can do a true LCS diff to find the common parts, rather than the front/back heuristic it currently does (see the diff-highlight README for the gory details). It's just a little complicated because of the way it interacts with existing internal diff features (in particular the whitespace-error highlighting).
nilsjuenemann 10y ago
Is there already a pre-built package for MacOSX?
- throwaway745234 10y ago
  Homebrew has it.
  - donatj 10y ago
    I sadly usually wait for the official AppleGit Xcode tools release for the Keychain integration I'm so sadly dependent on.
    - sxg 10y ago
      I'm not exactly sure what your use case is, but would this help? https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git/ https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-passwor...
    - qwyxzy 10y ago
      I use brew'd git alongside git credential-osxkeychain.
    - modoc 10y ago
      The 2.9 git install from homebrew prompted me for keychain access and then just "worked", this morning. My first time using brew git. So you may want to give it a whirl.
- gunn 10y ago
  https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.0.tar.xz https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.0.tar.xz (as used by homebrew)
amitshekhar 10y ago
can anybody help in adding submodule in my project https://github.com/amitshekhariitbhu/AndroidNetworking https://github.com/amitshekhariitbhu/AndroidNetworking using new git 2.9
desireco42 10y ago
Great release. Submodules are bad practice riddled with problems, I think it wouldn't be bad to remove this feature at all, that way no-one will be have an option to use it.
- riscy 10y ago
  I use submodules and they work fine. What is so bad about them that I shouldn't be using them?
  - ithkuil 10y ago
    Here's some good posts about submodules and alternatives, so you can make up your own mind: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submodule-git-subtree/ http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submo... https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your-company-shouldnt-use-git-submodules/ https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your...
    - riscy 10y ago
      From what I've gathered skimming the numerous blog posts venting about submodules, it seems that people have trouble with submodules because they are trying to integrate them into a workflow they work poorly in (i.e., rapidly changing modules). There seems to be room for improvement for that type of usage, given what people are saying, but I wonder if there have been any changes to submodules since those posts (many of them are dated around 2011-2012). My own positive experience with submodules involves dependencies that only occasionally change; I can always point to a specific tag that should be used.
      - mnsc 10y ago
        How do you point to a specific tag? Do you set branch : (tag)?
      - Ace17 10y ago
        Yes. One should avoid to extract a component from the repo as a submodule too early, i.e when the interface of the component is not mostly stabilized. If each commit in your "main" module is paired with a commit in your submodules, then you might be missing the point of module separation.
cpdean 10y ago
'git' is the name of the command line interface. the VCS is technically called "git's monster"
- marvy 10y ago
  You're joking, right?
  - cpdean 10y ago
    I'm not sure how anyone could find version control funny.
  - falsedan 10y ago
    yes, it's one humor joke
rco8786 10y ago
Over/under until git supports emoji in commit messages?
- creshal 10y ago
  Why would it need dedicated support for it? It's already unicode aware.
- milkey_mouse 10y ago
  I've put emoji in commit messages. Git already supports Unicode (mostly). Just make sure you're using a Unicode-aware terminal.
systemz 10y ago
Are they planning to simplify standard day to day command from flag nightmare to something that mortal can actually remember?
- lexicality 10y ago
  What flags do you have particular problems with and what could you see as a replacement for them?
icefox 10y ago
Hidden at the end of the changelog is the addition of the the new config entry: "core.hooksPath" which lets you specify globally or per repository where hooks should point to. In the Git-hooks project we have been using the init.templatedir which this replaces (as it is better), but for those that can't upgrade to 2.9 you can use init.templatedir and some variation of what Git-Hooks does to obtain similar results. https://github.com/icefox/git-hooks/blob/master/git-hooks#L165 https://github.com/icefox/git-hooks/blob/master/git-hooks#L1...
- avar 10y ago
  Sweet. I implemented that feature vaguely fearing that nobody except me was going to use it, in my case to ease setting up "auditing" hooks on a centralized Git server. Awesome that you find in useful.
- spb 10y ago
  Oh man, excellent. I've wanted this feature in my [Plushu][] project for years: this will make my code significantly simpler. [Plushu]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253790 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253...
msoad 10y ago
Oh I should compare the new coloring with DiffSoFancy. I think DiffSoFancy still wins!

357 points by bootload 10y ago

"In 2.9, Git's diff engine learned a new heuristic: it tries to keep hunk boundaries at blank lines, shifting the hunk "up" whenever the bottom of the hunk matches the bottom of the preceding context, until we hit a blank line. " I like the new diff improvements

emmelaich 10y ago
In a few (relatively) short years, git's diff has improved on all the other diffs out there.
- darfs 10y ago
  I didnt even know about the mentioned diff-script: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highligh... It gives pretty nice output :-) I should definitely learn more about extending git!
  - Spiritus 10y ago
    There's also this https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
    - michaelmior 10y ago
      +1 for this. I started using it a few months ago for all my git diffs and I quite like the output. The biggest thing for me is being able to easily see partial line changes.
    - 0942v8653 10y ago
      Requires Node though. Not sure that many people have that installed.
      - TimWolla 10y ago
        It does not: > For convenience, the recommended installation is via NPM. If you'd prefer, you may choose to do a manual installation instead. (highlighting by me) It is written in Perl.
        ymse 10y ago
        Wait, what? A perl app distributed through NPM? What's next, a node app on CPAN? Color me perplexed.
        dietrichepp 10y ago
        There are a lot of non-JS packages in NPM. The Closure compiler, for example.
  - maverickwoo 10y ago
    My favorite git diff extension is the side-by-side diff by cdiff: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdiff https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdiff It also features word-level change highlights and other common flares.
- forrestthewoods 10y ago
  I still prefer Araxis. http://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en http://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en
  - zwieback 10y ago
    It's the absolute best, been using it for years.
    - tomtheengineer 10y ago
      Beyond Compare is the best I've found (especially for complex merges): http://www.scootersoftware.com/ http://www.scootersoftware.com/
      - philliphaydon 10y ago
        Me too. I tried ataxia for about 6 months and hated it, got told about beyond compare, paid for a license after only a few days of the trial .
      - forrestthewoods 10y ago
        Beyond Compare is great. I prefer Araxis. I think most people would be very happy with one of the two. Whichever you happen to prefer.
  - merb 10y ago
    I use: http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/ http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/
broodbucket 10y ago
Does anyone know if this only works when displaying diffs, or when generating them? It'd definitely be nice if diffs were more readable when sent to mailing lists, i.e. from git format-patch.
- creshal 10y ago
  I'm fairly sure this applies only to the generating engine. (Otherwise it'd somehow need to reformat old diffs on the fly.)
  - avar 10y ago
    Reformat old diffs? If you're under the impression that Git stores diffs you're mistaken. It stores the full file contents and delta-compresses them later. Diffs in Git are purely a presentation format for human consumption.
    - creshal 10y ago
      > Diffs in Git are purely a presentation format for human consumption. git format-patch says hi. Obviously the diff engine changes won't apply to already generated text diffs.
- hibbelig 10y ago
  You can pipe an existing diff through diff-so-fancy or diff-highlight: cat foo.diff | diff-so-fancy I've never tried, but that's what the doc says. [time passes] Oh yes, it seems to work. It doesn't do colors when I try it, but that's probably a misconfiguration on my side. It's how this is intended to be used.
spb 10y ago
I don't understand why Git can't just make the [histogram algorithm][1] default, which has better performance than the base Myers algorithm, and is already built to integrate this type of heuristics (without the bugs that caused this patch to get held back). [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32365271/whats-the-difference-between-git-diff-patience-and-git-diff-histogram http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32365271/whats-the-differ...
wscott 10y ago
Cool. BitKeeper internal diff, used for recording history and displaying changes has done this since 2001. https://gist.github.com/wscott/c403526ca19a210c13ad649136c15608 https://gist.github.com/wscott/c403526ca19a210c13ad649136c15... http://bkbits.net/u/bk/bugfix/?PAGE=patch&REV=3bdee65dgEb_uMb7G9RGTpivu4A1tA http://bkbits.net/u/bk/bugfix/?PAGE=patch&REV=3bdee65dgEb_uM...
Rafert 10y ago
Does anybody know if the new diff heuristic engine takes info from a .gitattributes file in to account? When using git diff to view changes it already makes a difference, see http://urbanautomaton.com/blog/2011/07/28/git-grep-and-language-specific-diffs/ http://urbanautomaton.com/blog/2011/07/28/git-grep-and-langu...

exDM69 10y ago

The new "rebase -x" seems really useful. It runs a test script on all patches in the history, making it useful for getting a bunch of patches tested for merging at once. This makes it easier to not have broken commits (e.g. ones that don't build) in master, which in turn makes git bisect more useful.

bboreham 10y ago
Can someone say how this differs from 'git rebase -i --exec' ?
- peff 10y ago
  It doesn't. It's just more convenient to use, and we took the opportunity to make people aware of the existing `--exec` feature.
- epmatsw 10y ago
  It can be non-interactive now. Think "git rebase master"
  - eightbit 10y ago
    git rebate... I wonder if there's also git refund, git coupon and git discount?
    - epmatsw 10y ago
      Sigh. Why can't all autocorrects handle git verbs?

mr_sturd 10y ago

> Faster and more flexible submodules I have a big, monolithic repository which I'm looking to break up in a migration to Git. If I run; git submodule split -P <path_to_sm> -b <name_of_branch> --jobs=4 Will I see the same improvements, as documented?

umanwizard 10y ago
> I have a big, monolithic repository which I'm looking to break up in a migration to Git. Why?
- ansible 10y ago
  Not the OP, but if it is big enough, common tasks such as 'git status' can take seconds to complete, which is annoying. That said, I won't be using git submodules again on another project, it was a bit cumbersome for my taste.
deleted 10y ago
[deleted]

rplnt 10y ago

I haven't been following releases for a while, it's nice to see that submodules can now (2.8) be actually used. Just curious, were there any changes to sparse-checkout? It had abysmal performance in pre-2.x if you threw more elaborate paths at it, or more paths in general.

coldpie 10y ago
We've been using submodules for almost a decade. It's easy to make mistakes, which is bad, but they're hardly unusable.
- rplnt 10y ago
  Well, I might overstated how slow it was to check them out in serial. They are still PITA thanks to specific behavior, missing features (both in git and in 3rd party tools such as bitbucket), etc.. The benefits oftentimes overshadow the issues with them, but there are drawbacks to using them.

fidz 10y ago

What is the algorithm of heuristics diff? Is it comparing longest-match? So, if i originally have x b n then adding x a n on top of it, it will become x a n x b n How can i know that i add x-a-n? Basically, isn't it comparing x-b-n and detect it has changes on 'b' block, so the 'b' block become a-n-x-b? Edit: My bad, didn't see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11915351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11915351. It has been explained there.

Spiritus 10y ago

Bitbucket[1] also mentions a few other new cool stuff in 2.9, like making the `--verbose` flag to `git commit` default: git config −−global commit.verbose true [1] https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/06/13/git-2-9/ https://blog.bitbucket.org/2016/06/13/git-2-9/

comfydragon 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but that link doesn't say commit.verbose is true by default, it just documents the new setting you can set.
- sasvari 10y ago
  by default it is false. but commit.verbose is introduced by git 2.9. setting it before 2.9 didn't have any effect.

hkjgkjy 10y ago

OT The new diff script (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/diff-highligh...) is juicy indeed. It is written in Perl. The Perl interpreter is available on most UNIX systems, so that's handy. I wonder if there is any Lisp-like language that is as common, that you can write scripts and expect them to run on most systems. Would be nice since Lisp languages have very few concepts to learn...

tveita 10y ago
Guile may be the closest, but it failed to gain much traction despite support in some popular GNU tools like GDB. It's certainly not installed on most systems, but it at least has a tiny chance of being present.
- creshal 10y ago
  On Arch Linux it's a dependency of both gdb and make, but it seems that other distributions go out of their way to avoid shipping it (Debian e.g. builds gdb without a hard dependency on it, and you need to install a separate make-guile package to get guile-enabled make).
- s_kilk 10y ago
  Is guile part of the default packages on any unix-alike distribution though? The huge upside of perl is not necessarily that it's available, but that it's available by default.
baldfat 10y ago
I second the ability to use a Lisp language for this also (Racket Please).
peff 10y ago
I hope to one day push the highlighting inside of git itself. That should make it more efficient, and we can do a true LCS diff to find the common parts, rather than the front/back heuristic it currently does (see the diff-highlight README for the gory details). It's just a little complicated because of the way it interacts with existing internal diff features (in particular the whitespace-error highlighting).

nilsjuenemann 10y ago

Is there already a pre-built package for MacOSX?

throwaway745234 10y ago
Homebrew has it.
- donatj 10y ago
  I sadly usually wait for the official AppleGit Xcode tools release for the Keychain integration I'm so sadly dependent on.
  - sxg 10y ago
    I'm not exactly sure what your use case is, but would this help? https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git/ https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-passwor...
  - qwyxzy 10y ago
    I use brew'd git alongside git credential-osxkeychain.
  - modoc 10y ago
    The 2.9 git install from homebrew prompted me for keychain access and then just "worked", this morning. My first time using brew git. So you may want to give it a whirl.
gunn 10y ago
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.0.tar.xz https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.9.0.tar.xz (as used by homebrew)

amitshekhar 10y ago

can anybody help in adding submodule in my project https://github.com/amitshekhariitbhu/AndroidNetworking https://github.com/amitshekhariitbhu/AndroidNetworking using new git 2.9

desireco42 10y ago

Great release. Submodules are bad practice riddled with problems, I think it wouldn't be bad to remove this feature at all, that way no-one will be have an option to use it.

riscy 10y ago
I use submodules and they work fine. What is so bad about them that I shouldn't be using them?
- ithkuil 10y ago
  Here's some good posts about submodules and alternatives, so you can make up your own mind: http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submodule-git-subtree/ http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/alternatives-to-git-submo... https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your-company-shouldnt-use-git-submodules/ https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/why-your...
  - riscy 10y ago
    From what I've gathered skimming the numerous blog posts venting about submodules, it seems that people have trouble with submodules because they are trying to integrate them into a workflow they work poorly in (i.e., rapidly changing modules). There seems to be room for improvement for that type of usage, given what people are saying, but I wonder if there have been any changes to submodules since those posts (many of them are dated around 2011-2012). My own positive experience with submodules involves dependencies that only occasionally change; I can always point to a specific tag that should be used.
    - mnsc 10y ago
      How do you point to a specific tag? Do you set branch : (tag)?
    - Ace17 10y ago
      Yes. One should avoid to extract a component from the repo as a submodule too early, i.e when the interface of the component is not mostly stabilized. If each commit in your "main" module is paired with a commit in your submodules, then you might be missing the point of module separation.

cpdean 10y ago

'git' is the name of the command line interface. the VCS is technically called "git's monster"

marvy 10y ago
You're joking, right?
- cpdean 10y ago
  I'm not sure how anyone could find version control funny.
- falsedan 10y ago
  yes, it's one humor joke

rco8786 10y ago

Over/under until git supports emoji in commit messages?

creshal 10y ago
Why would it need dedicated support for it? It's already unicode aware.
milkey_mouse 10y ago
I've put emoji in commit messages. Git already supports Unicode (mostly). Just make sure you're using a Unicode-aware terminal.

systemz 10y ago

Are they planning to simplify standard day to day command from flag nightmare to something that mortal can actually remember?

lexicality 10y ago
What flags do you have particular problems with and what could you see as a replacement for them?

icefox 10y ago

Hidden at the end of the changelog is the addition of the the new config entry: "core.hooksPath" which lets you specify globally or per repository where hooks should point to. In the Git-hooks project we have been using the init.templatedir which this replaces (as it is better), but for those that can't upgrade to 2.9 you can use init.templatedir and some variation of what Git-Hooks does to obtain similar results. https://github.com/icefox/git-hooks/blob/master/git-hooks#L165 https://github.com/icefox/git-hooks/blob/master/git-hooks#L1...

avar 10y ago
Sweet. I implemented that feature vaguely fearing that nobody except me was going to use it, in my case to ease setting up "auditing" hooks on a centralized Git server. Awesome that you find in useful.
spb 10y ago
Oh man, excellent. I've wanted this feature in my [Plushu][] project for years: this will make my code significantly simpler. [Plushu]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253790 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/253...

msoad 10y ago

Oh I should compare the new coloring with DiffSoFancy. I think DiffSoFancy still wins!