Git 2.37 Release Highlights: New Aliases, Improved Diff Temp Files, Rewritten git add -i, Refactoring and Performance Optimizations
Git 2.37, released last week, introduces short‑hand aliases for version and help commands, generates external diff temporary files in a dedicated subdirectory, rewrites the interactive add feature in C, begins transport and pack refactoring, and delivers multiple performance improvements and bug fixes.
Git 2.37 was released last week as the latest release‑candidate version.
Although it does not add any "killer‑feature" level functionality, it includes many incremental improvements compared with previous releases. The main changes are:
Introduces alternative short options: git -v as an alias for git --version and git -h as an alias for git --help .
Temporary files supplied to external diff commands are now created in a temporary directory that shares the same basename.
The interactive add command git add -i has been rewritten in C, making it available to all users by default.
Initial code refactoring for transport and pack functionality.
Multiple performance optimizations, memory‑leak fixes, and other performance‑related work.
Various bug fixes.
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