Download Git 2.15.0

The developers behind Git have released version 2.15.0 of their software. Git allows software and project developers, among others, to perform management and version control over data and source code. The program can be seen as a competitor to Subversion or Mercurial. It has, among other things, complete branching and mergingfunctions and is released under the gpl version 2. For an overview of comparisons between Git and other version control systems, see this page. The complete list of changes in version 2.15.0 can be found on this page are found, these are briefly the most important:

Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.

• Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for ‘everything matches’ is still warned and Git asks users to use a more explicit ‘.’ for that instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in Git v2.16, the next major release after this one.
• Git now avoids blindly falling back to “.git” when the setup sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that happens to work right now may be broken by a call to BUG(). We’ve tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there might still be cases that need to be addressed–bug reports are greatly appreciated.
• “branch –set-upstream” that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has finally been retired.