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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

From the announcement:

Another frequently mentioned feature in this series is Git’s “partial clone” mechanism, which allows interacting with a repository containing a limited subset of its objects.

Has anyone tried partial clones yet? If you did, how was the experience?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beginning in Git 2.43, Git will realize when it’s about to perform a double-revert, and instead produce the much more pleasing message

Doesn't happen very often, but I'm glad we have a better solution to this now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Git has a problematic UI. But the good news is that everyone acknowledges it and there has been genuine and sustained efforts to improve it. Git today is much more pleasant than it was before 2010.