Git Just Got a Big Update!

Manpreet Singh
2 min readApr 18, 2022

Welcome back! Git is an awesome piece of software that allows us to track changes in our files, it’s used by many developers across the world, and it actually just ended up getting a massive update, Git 2.36, this new version of Git fixes several issues from the previous versions of Git, here is a link to their release log if you want to see all of the changes:

So, let’s take a look at some of my favorite updates with this update!

Security Updates

This version of Git also brings some security updates as well, these include stricter owner checkups with repositories, this should increase the security our Git repositories.

Flexible Fsync

This new version of Git brings alot more flexibility with our sync function, this will allow us to manage our files a little bit better within Git 2.36.

Merge Conflicts Updates

This new version of Git brings in some updates with merging, essentially, this update will show us the diffs between different merge…

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