Git 2.50.0 Released, Timed to Git's 20th Anniversary
By BIOS Founding Team
Released to coincide with Git's 20th anniversary, this version included 621 changes from 98 developers. Key improvements included splitting large 'cruft pack' archives into smaller pieces to reduce repack disk load.
It also added experimental incremental multi-pack-index support for large repositories and completed removal of the old recursive merge engine in favor of the modern ORT engine.
Full details: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/what-s-new-in-git-2-50-0/
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