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Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos

Apeksha AwasthiMarch 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20

Try out Azure Repos' mobile-friendly and faster pull request experience with new features like adding required reviewers per pull request, comparing multiple iterations, and accepting suggested changes within the pull request!

Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]March 18, 2020Mar 18, 202003/18/20

With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 last month, connections to SSH servers using SHA-1 was disabled by default in the OpenSSH client. We understand that this move helps improve the security of SSH connections, by encouraging all users to adopt the SHA-2 class of algorithms, generally considered safer. However, this resulted in OpenSSH users not be

Introducing Scalar: Git at scale for everyone

Derrick StoleeFebruary 12, 2020Feb 12, 202002/12/20

Git is a distributed version control system, so by default each Git repository has a copy of all files in the entire history. Even moderately-sized teams can create thousands of commits adding hundreds of megabytes to the repository every month. As your repository grows, Git may struggle to manage all that data. Time spent waiting for git stat

Updates to the Git Commit Graph Feature

Derrick StoleeNovember 11, 2019Nov 11, 201911/11/19

In a previous blog series, we announced that Git has a new commit-graph feature, and described some future directions. Since then, the commit-graph feature has grown and evolved. In the recently released Git version 2.24.0, the commit-graph is enabled by default! Today, we discuss what you should know about the feature, and what you can expect

Announcing the Azure Repos app for Microsoft Teams

Atin BansalOctober 23, 2019Oct 23, 201910/23/19

Coding is a team sport. To help developers be more efficient, we are excited to announce the new Azure Repos app for Microsoft Teams

Understanding delta file changes and merge conflicts in Git pull requests

Aram MaliachiAugust 16, 2019Aug 16, 201908/16/19

Understanding the way Git defines Δfile changes and merge conflicts in pull requests.

A Deep Dive into Git Performance using Trace2

Jeff HostetlerAugust 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19

A deep dive into using the new Git Trace2 feature to study Git performance problems on very large repos.

Improving Azure DevOps cherry-picking

Begona GuerecaJune 6, 2019Jun 6, 201906/6/19

One of the more powerful git commands is the cherry-pick command. This can be an extremely powerful component of many git workflows such as the Azure DevOps team's Release Flow. To highlight a common use-case for it, let’s talk about hot-fixing release branches.

Exploring new frontiers for Git push performance

Derrick StoleeMay 15, 2019May 15, 201905/15/19

In previous posts I've talked about performance improvements that our team contributed to the Git community. At Microsoft, we've been pushing Git to its limits with the largest and busiest Git repositories on the planet, improving core Git as we go and sending these improvements back upstream. With Git 2.21.0 and later you can take advantage o

Remediating the October 2018 Git Security Vulnerability

Edward ThomsonOctober 5, 2018Oct 5, 201810/5/18

Today, the Git project has announced a security vulnerability: there is a security issue in recursively cloning submodules that can lead to arbitrary code execution. The Azure DevOps team encourages you to examine whether you are on an affected platform and, if so, upgrade your Git clients to the latest version.

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