
11/17/2025 · Christian Couder
What this post added
This post details the introduction of the `git-last-modified(1)` command, which significantly improves the efficiency of retrieving the last commit for each file in a Git repository by walking the history only once. It also highlights improvements to `git-fast-export(1)` and `git-fast-import(1)` for handling cryptographic signatures, and the introduction of a "geometric" maintenance strategy for `git-maintenance(1)` to optimize large monorepos. GitLab's Git team contributed to these upstream changes.