Git 2.54.0 released [LWN.net]

Git maintainer Junio Hamano has announced Git 2.54.0, which includes contributions from 137 people; 66 of those people are first-time contributors to the project. Changes include the addition of Git history rewriting, Git's web interface (gitweb) "has been taught to be mobile friendly", and much more. See the announcement for all improvements, additions, and bug fixes. Hamano is now taking a short break:

I will go offline for a couple of weeks starting this evening, hopefully after updating 'next' and possibly also pushing out the first batch of the new cycle. There is no designated interim maintainer this time, but I trust that the community can self organize during my absense, if the shape of the release and the tree turns out to be super bad ;-).

See this GitHub blog entry for highlights from this release.

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Posted Apr 21, 2026 22:18 UTC (Tue) by RazeLighter777 (subscriber, #130021) [Link] (1 responses)

Wow!

I'm excited for this.

Normally to split up my patches, which I frequently do for kernel dev, I have to rebase, reset and do everything from scratch. Very error prone.

This is huge for anyone like me that gets lazy and doesn't feel like making clean commits until I decide to upstream them.

git history split

Posted Apr 25, 2026 14:50 UTC (Sat) by donald.buczek (subscriber, #112892) [Link]

Unfortunately, the hunk selection is not yet as flexible as `git add -p`: At the moment there is neither “s” (split) nor “e” (edit).

Git 2.54.0 released

Vacation

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