The latest version of Git can be downloaded from Softpedia

Feb 14, 2014 10:09 GMT  ·  By

Git, a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency, is now at version 1.8.5.5.

Git 1.8.x continues the trend of large releases, integrating a big number of modifications and fixes, and the latest version is no different.

According to the developers, the pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git diff A B -- path1 path2") is no longer too aggressive, "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" is now parsed correctly, and a recent update to "git send-email" has been fixed.

Also, a handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation and its lookalike have been fixed and "git clone" no longer fails to clone from a repository that has a ref directly under "refs/," e.g. "refs/stash."

For a complete list of changes, check out the changelog. Download Git 1.8.5.5 right now from Softpedia.