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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
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#git-config
DevOps
PART 27
Git 2.40–2.49: reftable, SHA-256, git replay and the New git config
We look at the 2.40–2.49 period, when the foundations of Git 3.0 were laid, with real output: the reftable ref store and git refs migrate, where SHA-256 repos stand today, git config's get/set/unset/list subcommands, worktree add --orphan, git replay, safe.directory prefixes, git backfill and Rust's first step.
6 Nov 2026
9 min
2
DevOps
PART 02
Installing Git and First Settings: Starting Right with git config
We install Git on macOS, Windows and Linux, check the version and look at the system/global/local config layers, user.name and user.email, why init.defaultBranch main matters, core.editor and core.autocrlf. We compare the git config list/get/set/unset subcommands (2.46+) with the old --get form.
6 Nov 2026
9 min
2