New features in Git 2.54: easier rebasing, hooks, and statistics

In this post I describe some of the nice new features released in Git 2.54, including easier simple rebases, hooks defined in config, and some stats about your git repo. I learned about these from other posts, and these are the things that caught my eye. Easier simple rebases with git history I'm a big fan of interactive rebasing with git rebase -i, particularly when using a tool like Rider which makes working out exactly what you need to do that much easier: But the reality is that rebase is often daunting to people. You can mess it up, and if you end up with merge conflicts on the way, things can easily get very confusing. And sometimes, you don't really need all the power of a full rebase. I've written a lot about rebasing in the past, including stacked branches, git absorb and --update-refs. If you don't know about these tools, I highly recommend checking them out! If you don't need to do anything fancy with git rebase then the new git history command might be for you. In Git…