Git 2.38 has changed!

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Hey there everyone 👋!

All developers have used git, right? Well, the recent update dated on 13-10-22 [DD-MM-YYYY] has somewhat changed git forever.

🪸 Backstory of Git

🐲 Git is free and open source software for distributed version control: tracking changes in any set of files, usually used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development. It was initially released on 7 April, 2005. Git was developed the same person who built the the great linux kernal.

🦄 Introduction of Scalar

Scalar has been a side project of microsoft for years now. It is open-source since the very beginning.
😎 Scalar is a tool that helps Git scale to some of the largest Git repositories. It achieves this by enabling some advanced Git features like the following -

Partial clone: reduces time to get a working repository by not downloading all Git objects right away.
Background prefetch: downloads Git object data from all remotes every hour, reducing the amount of time for foreground git fetch calls.
Sparse-checkout: limits the size of your working directory.
File system monitor: tracks the recently modified files and eliminates the need for Git to scan the entire worktree.
Commit-graph: accelerates commit walks and reachability calculations, speeding up commands like git log.
Multi-pack-index: enables fast object lookups across many pack-files.
Incremental repack: Repacks the packed Git data into fewer pack-file without disrupting concurrent commands by using the multi-pack-index.