“Right after the change happened, he’s like: ‘I don’t feel right.’ And I was like: ‘What do you mean?’ And he says: ‘I don’t feel like myself. I don’t feel as sharp, I feel slow, I feel sluggish.’ And I was like, well, could you elaborate how you’re feeling? And he says: ‘I feel like a part of me has died.’”

Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.

Long-time Perl legend and gadfly Matt Trout has passed.