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Git 2.10 has been released

205 points by dwaxe 10y ago

mshenfield 10y ago
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config has the complete color documentation (find for "magenta" to jump to it).
Radim 10y ago
Meta: Beautifully written release summary, including hyperlinks and animated gif "demos". Inspirational for our own releases :-)
- SquareWheel 10y ago
  I find the gifs make the text around them far harder to focus on. I'd much prefer they only played on click or hover.
  - gkya 10y ago
    I'm actually surprised that the browsers don't have gif playback controls by now.
    - stonogo 10y ago
      Until relatively recently. You could stop gif animations on a page in firefox. They removed the functionality, citing bloat, and suggested someone write an extension. Shortly after, they integrated Pocket and Hello and broke the extension apis that would have made a gif control extension easy.
    - deleted 10y ago
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    - scrame 10y ago
      In a desktop: right-click, "show controls". Should work in FF / Chrome.
      - SquareWheel 10y ago
        Showing controls is only possible on <video> tags. This won't work on gifs.
- paradite 10y ago
  Nice formatting aside, I am slightly concerned that GitHub "releasing a release note" for Git would further blur the distinction between the two for new programmers. If I were new to Git and GitHub, I would have thought that Git is a product of the company GitHub. Edit: After searching through git repo and official site, I could not find any nicely "rendered" release note beyond the official release note in raw markdown here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentati... , so I think GitHub is doing us a good thing here by giving a high level summary and actually rendering the markdown properly.
  - rickycook 10y ago
    i assume that's at least partly intentional from the github point of view
  - danso 10y ago
    Oh geez, you're giving me flashbacks to trying to introduce Github to non-technical students. I basically just don't even try to explain the difference, because I have them use a minimal set of git's functionality, that is, the subcommands add, commit, and push...and of course, clone and init at the beginning of the quarter. And I teach them virtually nothing about Github other than that it's a website that you interface with git. For me, Github is a great place to get students to push their assignments and papers because I can easily comment on them...once in awhile I'll do a force push to fix something. We never do anything with forking, and I strongly discourage them from using the Github web interface to edit documents, as that is the most frequent cause of merge conflicts. If they follow what I say, git and Github are just glorified document-uploading systems. I've almost never had a student fuck up in a way that we had to rollback something, because for the most part, people who don't use version control as their job don't need it. Version control is only particularly relevant when working in a team, doing iterative work, or deploying to multiple environments. These are things that students do not need to worry about. And actually, even the comsci students don't really need to worry about it. If I do attempt to explain the difference between git and Github, I usually use the analogy of git is to Github as your cameraphone is to Instagram.
- DigitalJack 10y ago
  Do you know what they might have used to make the gifs?
  - ramses0 10y ago
    https://github.com/paulguy/asciirec https://github.com/paulguy/asciirec is very nice, and could be helpful but doesn't do gifs directly.
  - hk__2 10y ago
    This works well: https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207 https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207
  - scotu 10y ago
    it doesn't make a gif but I think it's really nifty to get a similar (better?) effect: https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/
  - paradite 10y ago
    I use this on OS X and it works great: https://github.com/vvo/gifify https://github.com/vvo/gifify I tried a lot other services to convert quicktime recording to gif but all of them have color encoding issues.
- raus22 10y ago
  and with humour: > Git's internal date-formatting code can now correctly show dates past the year 2100. Phew, fixed with only 84 years to spare.
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SOLAR_FIELDS 10y ago
This is great and all, but do status bars and terminal colorings really warrant this kind of fanfare? I love git and I'm very happy that they are constantly releasing new stuff, but I think we should draw a line somewhere on what really matters and what doesn't as far as news coverage.
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- has2k1 10y ago
  The news is on github, it specialises in everything git and on the git subject they can choose to shine the light wherever and it will not be out-of-place. Maybe you could limit the criticism to the fact that it has been submitted to HN and voted onto the front page, which would be a criticism of distribution medium and of the medium consuming masses.
jxy 10y ago
Does anybody really care about the progress meters? Those useless numbers! You can try to tell me you are not stuck every half second or so, but I don't want to see all the noise. I'd rather it not print out anything by default unless I ask for it or it fails. Why do git developers concern about the colored output? It's completely unrelated to SCM at all. I love the functionality. But it shouldn't be only for git. Can we have a separate utility that reads a diff and gloriously print out the contents, all by itself, and only that? I really don't want to see git becomes another bloatware.
- onion2k 10y ago
  Use the --quiet flag to turn off most output and don't bother defining any colors if you don't like them. Now git is how you like it. For diffs, try git difftool.
- addicted 10y ago
  1) The progress meters is important. The scenarios in which this progress meter would matter, would lead to users thinking something strange went wrong and their push did not succeed because of the lack of the progress meters. Besides that, it's a UI manifestation of a bug that would have led to pushes in certain scenarios not working. 2) As long as GIT diff exists, making it more usable should certainly be a core part of changes to GIT diff. There are many utilities you can use for GIT diffs easily enough instead of the base diff. But I like the fact that if I'm at a machine where my preferred utilities are not setup, I still have a very usable diff built into GIT.
abhinavk 10y ago
Interestingly, git-scm.com is still serving Git 2.9.3 right now.
dohqu8Zi 10y ago
Original announcement with hipster mode off. ;) http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147286906121492&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147286906121492&w=2
- mlvljr 10y ago
  You downvoting guys nuts or damaged? This one contains more info than one on GitHUb :)
- ComputerGuru 10y ago
  I just get no such message on that page
hoodoof 10y ago
It seems so easy to include a command line option to specify which PEM file to use but git just won't do it. Yes I know there are ways around it and config files you can set up, but heck, it's just a command line "use this PEM file". It's not hard.
klocksib 10y ago
Here's the release announcement from the people who actually bring you git: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentati...

205 points by dwaxe 10y ago

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config has the complete color documentation (find for "magenta" to jump to it).

Radim 10y ago

Meta: Beautifully written release summary, including hyperlinks and animated gif "demos". Inspirational for our own releases :-)

SquareWheel 10y ago
I find the gifs make the text around them far harder to focus on. I'd much prefer they only played on click or hover.
- gkya 10y ago
  I'm actually surprised that the browsers don't have gif playback controls by now.
  - stonogo 10y ago
    Until relatively recently. You could stop gif animations on a page in firefox. They removed the functionality, citing bloat, and suggested someone write an extension. Shortly after, they integrated Pocket and Hello and broke the extension apis that would have made a gif control extension easy.
  - deleted 10y ago
    [deleted]
  - scrame 10y ago
    In a desktop: right-click, "show controls". Should work in FF / Chrome.
    - SquareWheel 10y ago
      Showing controls is only possible on <video> tags. This won't work on gifs.
paradite 10y ago
Nice formatting aside, I am slightly concerned that GitHub "releasing a release note" for Git would further blur the distinction between the two for new programmers. If I were new to Git and GitHub, I would have thought that Git is a product of the company GitHub. Edit: After searching through git repo and official site, I could not find any nicely "rendered" release note beyond the official release note in raw markdown here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentati... , so I think GitHub is doing us a good thing here by giving a high level summary and actually rendering the markdown properly.
- rickycook 10y ago
  i assume that's at least partly intentional from the github point of view
- danso 10y ago
  Oh geez, you're giving me flashbacks to trying to introduce Github to non-technical students. I basically just don't even try to explain the difference, because I have them use a minimal set of git's functionality, that is, the subcommands add, commit, and push...and of course, clone and init at the beginning of the quarter. And I teach them virtually nothing about Github other than that it's a website that you interface with git. For me, Github is a great place to get students to push their assignments and papers because I can easily comment on them...once in awhile I'll do a force push to fix something. We never do anything with forking, and I strongly discourage them from using the Github web interface to edit documents, as that is the most frequent cause of merge conflicts. If they follow what I say, git and Github are just glorified document-uploading systems. I've almost never had a student fuck up in a way that we had to rollback something, because for the most part, people who don't use version control as their job don't need it. Version control is only particularly relevant when working in a team, doing iterative work, or deploying to multiple environments. These are things that students do not need to worry about. And actually, even the comsci students don't really need to worry about it. If I do attempt to explain the difference between git and Github, I usually use the analogy of git is to Github as your cameraphone is to Instagram.
DigitalJack 10y ago
Do you know what they might have used to make the gifs?
- ramses0 10y ago
  https://github.com/paulguy/asciirec https://github.com/paulguy/asciirec is very nice, and could be helpful but doesn't do gifs directly.
- hk__2 10y ago
  This works well: https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207 https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207
- scotu 10y ago
  it doesn't make a gif but I think it's really nifty to get a similar (better?) effect: https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/
- paradite 10y ago
  I use this on OS X and it works great: https://github.com/vvo/gifify https://github.com/vvo/gifify I tried a lot other services to convert quicktime recording to gif but all of them have color encoding issues.
raus22 10y ago
and with humour: > Git's internal date-formatting code can now correctly show dates past the year 2100. Phew, fixed with only 84 years to spare.

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SOLAR_FIELDS 10y ago

This is great and all, but do status bars and terminal colorings really warrant this kind of fanfare? I love git and I'm very happy that they are constantly releasing new stuff, but I think we should draw a line somewhere on what really matters and what doesn't as far as news coverage.

deleted 10y ago
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has2k1 10y ago
The news is on github, it specialises in everything git and on the git subject they can choose to shine the light wherever and it will not be out-of-place. Maybe you could limit the criticism to the fact that it has been submitted to HN and voted onto the front page, which would be a criticism of distribution medium and of the medium consuming masses.

jxy 10y ago

Does anybody really care about the progress meters? Those useless numbers! You can try to tell me you are not stuck every half second or so, but I don't want to see all the noise. I'd rather it not print out anything by default unless I ask for it or it fails. Why do git developers concern about the colored output? It's completely unrelated to SCM at all. I love the functionality. But it shouldn't be only for git. Can we have a separate utility that reads a diff and gloriously print out the contents, all by itself, and only that? I really don't want to see git becomes another bloatware.

onion2k 10y ago
Use the --quiet flag to turn off most output and don't bother defining any colors if you don't like them. Now git is how you like it. For diffs, try git difftool.
addicted 10y ago
1) The progress meters is important. The scenarios in which this progress meter would matter, would lead to users thinking something strange went wrong and their push did not succeed because of the lack of the progress meters. Besides that, it's a UI manifestation of a bug that would have led to pushes in certain scenarios not working. 2) As long as GIT diff exists, making it more usable should certainly be a core part of changes to GIT diff. There are many utilities you can use for GIT diffs easily enough instead of the base diff. But I like the fact that if I'm at a machine where my preferred utilities are not setup, I still have a very usable diff built into GIT.

abhinavk 10y ago

Interestingly, git-scm.com is still serving Git 2.9.3 right now.

dohqu8Zi 10y ago

Original announcement with hipster mode off. ;) http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147286906121492&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=git&m=147286906121492&w=2

mlvljr 10y ago
You downvoting guys nuts or damaged? This one contains more info than one on GitHUb :)
ComputerGuru 10y ago
I just get no such message on that page

hoodoof 10y ago

It seems so easy to include a command line option to specify which PEM file to use but git just won't do it. Yes I know there are ways around it and config files you can set up, but heck, it's just a command line "use this PEM file". It's not hard.

klocksib 10y ago

Here's the release announcement from the people who actually bring you git: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentati...