Git 2.10 has been released · GitHub

The open source Git project has just released Git 2.10.0, with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here’s our look at some of the most interesting new features:

Progress reporting for pushes

When you run git push, you’ve probably seen a progress meter telling you how many objects you’ve sent, how many are left, and how fast the data is moving. But what happens after all of the data has made it to the server? Are we done?

Not quite. Even though the receiver of a push does as much work as possible while the data is flowing in, there are a few CPU-intensive tasks it can’t start until the whole thing has arrived. And while that’s happening, Git is completely silent. Most pushes are small enough that this phase finishes quickly, and you never notice. But when pushing a large number of objects, this can take many seconds or even minutes, leaving you to wonder if things are still working.

Worse, because the network connection is completely silent during this phase, you run the risk of the connection being dropped by HTTP proxies or other network infrastructure. That’s an easy way to turn your wondering into frustration.

Git 2.10 adds progress reports for these post-receive operations, to keep you entertained and to make sure the network knows we’re still going.

Source: Git 2.10 has been released · GitHub

 

Raony Guimaraes