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Azure Repos added the ability to choose a default branch for new repositories.

Try out Azure Repos' mobile-friendly and faster pull request experience with new features like adding required reviewers per pull request, comparing multiple iterations, and accepting suggested changes within the pull request!

With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 last month, connections to SSH servers using SHA-1 was disabled by default in the OpenSSH client. We understand that this move helps improve the security of SSH connections, by encouraging all users to adopt the SHA-2 class of algorithms, generally considered safer. However, this resulted in OpenSSH users not being ...

Git is a distributed version control system, so by default each Git repository has a copy of all files in the entire history. Even moderately-sized teams can create thousands of commits adding hundreds of megabytes to the repository every month. As your repository grows, Git may struggle to manage all that data. Time spent waiting for to report ...

In a previous blog series, we announced that Git has a new commit-graph feature, and described some future directions. Since then, the commit-graph feature has grown and evolved. In the recently released Git version 2.24.0, the commit-graph is enabled by default! Today, we discuss what you should know about the feature, and what you can expect when...

Coding is a team sport. To help developers be more efficient, we are excited to announce the new Azure Repos app for Microsoft Teams

Understanding the way Git defines Δfile changes and merge conflicts in pull requests.

A deep dive into using the new Git Trace2 feature to study Git performance problems on very large repos.

One of the more powerful git commands is the cherry-pick command. This can be an extremely powerful component of many git workflows such as the Azure DevOps team's Release Flow. To highlight a common use-case for it, let’s talk about hot-fixing release branches.

In previous posts I've talked about performance improvements that our team contributed to the Git community. At Microsoft, we've been pushing Git to its limits with the largest and busiest Git repositories on the planet, improving core Git as we go and sending these improvements back upstream. With Git 2.21.0 and later you can take advantage of a ...