Git is a version control system in the distributed source code management applications category for managing projects. Every Git working directory is a repository with complete history and full change tracking, without a central server or network access. Git is used in the open source scene often as a development platform, including the Linux kernel, Ruby on Rails, or Wine.

Unlike the operators of centralized version, the distributed nature of Git enables greater flexibility in how developers collaborate in projects. To ensure the integrity and stability, Git releases version 1.8.3 distributed source control system. Every Git version released so far has a hefty changelog and introduced a huge number of improvements.

Highlights of Git 1.8.3

Because Git allows you to have multiple repositories, you can have a workflow where each developer has write access to their public repository, and read access to everyone else’s. New interface features of Git include providing support for undo changes, showing dates in tags in a nicer way, added the ability to customize the colors, making colors configurable, and support for -G’pickaxe’ search.

There are some commonly used workflows that are possible with a distributed system like Git, but you can see that there are many variations feasible to adapt it to your specific case. Git “clone reference” now uses a text file with a reference to the real location of the repository. The bash completion support has been improved with few more options; remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/since v1.8.2) have been updated and “Git bisect” now leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect log file.

Git status now shows a bit more information during a rebase/bisect session. Refinement of the command line UI continues with a few neat updates including new flag that will list the guides available; supports a “triangular” work flow for situations where your default process is to always pull from one place and always push to a different one; and improved report information. Get the complete information on Git 1.8.3 release from below links:

Homepage: http://git-scm.com/

Download: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

Changelog: https://raw.github.com/gitster/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt

RPM Package: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/RPMS/

Debian Package: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/debian/