Git 2.8 version control system for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Install Git 2.8 On Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 14.10 Systems.
Git is a version control system developed by Linus Torvalds himself. He needed such a software for sharing code and performing collaboration work with other developers so he had created it.
The latest version available is Git 2.8 which brings the following changes:
- “git grep” can now be configured (or told from the command line) how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.
- “git fetch” and friends that make network connections can now be told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).
- Some authentication methods do not need username or password, but libcurl needs some hint that it needs to perform authentication.
- New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to specify what authentication method to use
- Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use it to run “git fetch –recurse-submodules” in parallel.
- There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning options in the Makefile.
- The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages. “git config” learnt a new “–show-origin” option to indicate where the values come from.
- The way the test scripts configure the Apache web server has been updated to work also for Apache 2.4 running on RedHat derived distros.
- The internal API to interact with “remote.*” configuration variables has been streamlined.
- Test scripts have been updated to remove assumptions that are not portable between Git for POSIX and Git for Windows, or to skip ones with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows.
- The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has been updated to share more code with the code that deals with normal references.
- Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to get a pretty loud warning when running “git push” without setting push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn because the transition was completed a long time ago.
- README has been renamed to README.md and its contents got tweaked slightly to make it easier on the eyes.
For a complete list of changes and fixes, visit https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
Install Git 2.8 on Ubuntu, via PPA
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Git 2.8 on Ubuntu, via PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git