devel/git-docs 2.55.0 NetBSD

GIT Tree History Storage Tool (documentation)

System: NetBSD
Repository: pkgsrc
Last update: 2026-09-30
Commit: 3ba44f2a41
License: gnu-gpl-v2
Categories: devel, scm
Package size: 639.6 KiB, 3989.3 KiB installed

Description

This package installs documentation for the GIT distributed version control suite.

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install git-docs

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/git-docs && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	Version
NetBSD 10.1 x86_64	2.55.0
NetBSD 10.1 aarch64	2.54.0
SmartOS / illumos x86_64	2.56.0
macOS 15 arm64	2.56.0

Dependencies

Required by 1

devel/git

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-30

3ba44f2a41

adam

git: updated to 2.56.0

Git v2.56 Release Notes UI, Workflows & Features Advice shown by "git status" when the local branch is behind or has diverged from its push branch has been updated to suggest "git pull <remote> <branch>". The handling of promisor-remote protocol capability has been updated to allow the other side to add to the list of promisor remotes via the promisor.acceptFromServerURL configuration variable. The ort merge backend has been hardened against corrupt trees by ensuring it aborts under appropriate error conditions. The fetch.followRemoteHEAD configuration variable has been added to provide a default for the per-remote remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD setting. "git log --follow" has been updated to better handle non-linear …