The developers behind Git have released version 2.36.1 of their software. With Git, software and project developers, among others, can perform management and version control over data and source code. It has, among other things, complete branching and mergingfunctions, and is released under the gpl version 2. For an overview of comparisons between Git and other version control systems, see this page† The changes look like this:
Git v2.36.1 Release Notes
Fixes since v2.36
- “git submodule update” without pathspec should silently skip an uninitialized submodule, but it started to become noisy by mistake.
- “diff-tree –stdin” has been broken for about a year, but 2.36 release broke it even worse by breaking running the command with
- Regression fix for 2.36 where “git name-rev” started to sometimes reference strings after they are freed.
- “git show
- “git fast-export —
- “git format-patch
- Get rid of a bogus and over-eager coccinelle rule.
- Correct choices of C compilers used in various CI jobs.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
| Version number | 2.36.1 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris, UNIX, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11 |
| Website | git |
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| License type | GPL |