Git 2.33 released with new optional merge process likely to become the default: Its over 9,000 times faster

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Git 2.33 has been released, including a new optional merge process called merge-ort, which the team hopes will become the default in the next version. The strategy in question is merge-ort, where ort stands for "Ostensibly Recursives Twin," according to its creator Elijah Newren. He also said that merge-ort is better optimised to not access unchanged parts of a source code tree, and better suited for integrating with other tools. Git, developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux code, now dominates version control systems, but it is not the easiest or most intuitive to use. Dr D Richard Hipp, creator of the Sqlite database manager as well as a competing version control manager called Fossil, considered the Git Rebase command harmful and disliked the inability to edit check-in comments, among other things.

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