14 DAY TRIAL // The wonderful developers behind Git, the world's most popular open-source distributed version control system, were more than happy to announce the immediate availability for download of Git 2.4.5.
Git 2.4.5 is the fifth maintenance release for the stable 2.4 series of the Git software, and according to the attached changelog, it adds a few improvements and repairs some of the most annoying issues that have been discovered since Git 2.4.4.
The Git developers managed to patch issues in the setup code related to a crash that occurred when the core.worktree and core.bare functions were set illogically, even when using commands that don't need a working tree.
Some code changes were made to Git as deprecated functions were removed, which were used for handling the "git pull --tags" command, as well as to display special-cased error messages, due to changing of the option's semantics in Git 1.9.
Furthermore, the "git rebase -i" command no longer outputs post-rewrite hooks during stopping of sequencing with "exec" insn, and inaccurate "color.diff.plain" file was renamed to "color.diff.context."
Several other improvements arrived in Git 2.4.5
In addition to the changes mentioned above, Git 2.4.5 addresses an "Out of memory?" issue that appeared when the configuration reader and writer that uses the mmap(2) interface to access the files found a directory.
Last but not least, the "git prune" command will no longer display alarming and useless error messages when traversing fresh unreachable objects for keeping old objects safe in the reachability chain.
Download Git 2.4.5 for GNU/Linux and Mac OS X operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the project's website, where you can find all the information you need to get started with Git.