More than 3 months ago, the Microsoft-owned GitHub team releases Git 2.37 for Windows, Linux/Unix, and macOS which added a new mechanism for pruning unreachable objects, and a built-in filesystem monitor for Windows and macOS. Now, with the launch of Git 2.38, the open-source team has added a new Repository Management Tool called "Scalar" to Git.
Apart from this, Git 2.38 also includes several new features and improvements as detailed below. You can now download the latest version of Git 2.38 for Windows, Linux/Unix, and macOS by visiting here.
Git is working on improving how you can handle very large repositories easily. For this, the team includes a new Repository Management Tool, called "Scalar", in Git 2.38. As it is in-built in Git, it provides the following curated and configured set of features designed to be pre-configured for optimal handling of very large-scale repositories.
Do note that, Scalar was first announced back in February 2020 as a .NET Core application for Git. Since then it has existed in Git but this is the first time Scalar has been included in the main-line release, under Git 2.38.
When you work on a very large feature, it is often helpful to break it into multiple small tasks. This often results in the creation of multiple branches making it cumbersome while rewrite the history of an earlier branch.
To resolve this issue, Git 2.38 includes a new option to git rebase command called --update-refs that knows how to perform several commands to rewrite the history while performing a rebase with multiple dependent branches.
The latest version of the Git client can be downloaded from the official site. To download Git version 2.38 for Windows, click here and select either the 32-bit or 64-bit option. From this page, you can also download a portable (thumb drive edition) of Git. To download Git version 2.38 for Linux/Unix, click here. To download Git version 2.38 for Mac OS, click here.
