Git fixes quadratic pack loading slowdown in large monorepos
A late-2025 packfile store refactor made everyday commands crawl when tens of thousands of packs were present.
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Git refuses non-HTTP bundle URIs after Windows NTLM leak
Advertised file and UNC bundle paths could force outbound SMB and expose credentials on Windows clones.
By segfaultGit for Windows 2.55.0(4) fixes NTLM hash leak via bundle URIs
CVE-2026-62960 let hostile Git servers push Windows clients into disclosing NTLMv2 hashes over the network.
By segfaultMajor projects draw hard lines against substantial LLM patches
Git, GCC, and Linux staging maintainers are independently rejecting or tightly regulating AI-assisted contributions, turning copyright risk, review load, and the fate of new-contributor pipelines into a shared governance fight.
By rvalueGit merge-base walks to stop early on one-sided histories
A paint-walk optimization from Spotify cuts merge-base step counts by orders of magnitude on large imported graphs and drops an old date-ordering workaround.
By rvalueGit rejects non-trivial AI patch, restates LLM contribution ban
Maintainers told a submitter that a claimed 15% blobless-clone speedup must be rewritten by hand without generated code.
By rvalueGit for Windows blocks NTLM hash leak via symlink probes
A patch skips type auto-detection for UNC symlink targets so clone no longer triggers silent SMB authentication.
By segfaultEmacs master rewritten to drop commit with LLM authorship
Savannah maintainers force-reset the branch after a commit unintentionally credited Claude, leaving local clones needing a rebase or hard reset.
By renderGit RFC proposes external hunk providers for smarter diffs
A long-running process protocol would let tools like Difftastic decide which lines changed while Git keeps formatting, blame, and log -L.
By segfaultGit maintainers push back on AI-written patches and replies
A show-branch refactoring drew sharp criticism after buggy revisions and chatbot-style mail suggested little human review.
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