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Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps

March 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020 03/18/20
Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]
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 ...

Introducing Scalar: Git at scale for everyone

February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20
Derrick Stolee
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 ...

Updates to the Git Commit Graph Feature

November 11, 2019 Nov 11, 2019 11/11/19
Derrick Stolee
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...

Exploring new frontiers for Git push performance

May 15, 2019 May 15, 2019 05/15/19
Derrick Stolee
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 ...