Git 2.10.2 Distributed Version Control System Released with over 20 Improvements

The Git development team pushed a new maintenance update to the Git 2.10 stable series, versioned 2.10.2, adding over 20 improvements and bug fixes to various areas of the free and open-source distributed version control system.

Among the changes included in Git 2.10.2, we can mention that the documentation was updated to include detailed information about what the "log -3 --reverse" command does, an issue that caused the "git blame" command to bypass the macro and peek into the DEFAULT_ABBREV variable was fixed, and the code that parses the format parameter of the "for-each-ref" command has been optimized a little.

"Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason," explained the developers. "An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted do... (read more)

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