Git 1.8.5.1 is now out. Git, the open source version control system designed to handle all types of projects quickly and efficiently, just reached version 1.8.5.1. Git is an open source distributed version control system for efficient, high-speed processing from very small to very large projects version management.

Git 1.8.5.1 continued the trend of large releases, integrating a big number of changes and fixes. Git developers are implementing many updates with each new version and this version also has no exception. Among the highlights of 1.8.5.1 are xdg-open can be used as a backend navigation to “git web-browse”; HTTP transport will attempt to use the TCP KeepAlive when it is activated; “git repack” is written in C; Updated the build procedure for MSVC; implemented several documentation updates and cleanups; and interaction was clarified between using Perl and NO_PERL in our test suite.

This version also incorporates updates for foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports, various UI, Workflows update, customary installation pointers, tiny improvements to submodules, commit and branch git status commands and a number of new features.

One interesting change is the new alias for HEAD. HEAD has a new alias, instead of typing four capital letters you can say “@” now, e.g. “git log @“, which means you can now just type in @^ for HEAD^ and @~2 for HEAD~2 and so on. Among other notable changes are that git-repack has been rewritten in C, cherry-pick shows the commits being cherry-picked and diff-filter has got an “all-but” option.

Every Git version released so far has a hefty changelog and introduced a huge number of improvements. Git 1.8.3 introduced in May bought better support for undo changes, refinement of the command line UI and better triangular work flow support.

Get the complete information on Git 1.8.5.1 release from below links:

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

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

Changelog: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt