Re: Git commands version documentation

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: May 22, 2022, 22:02 UTC
Message-ID: <f3814646-4763-62e1-b64e-d1aab3fdbbc8@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <ccb312dc-c2cc-ca3a-e659-0f87ceec0d15@gmail.com>

On 22/05/2022 19:41, Hrushikesh Rao wrote:

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> Hey,
>
> I am working on git maintenance project in Jenkins. We are using
> git-maintenance to improve the performance of the git commands further
> improving the build speed. Git maintenance was added in git version
> 2.30.0. The aim of the project is to also support systems having git
> version < 2.30.0. Few git maintenance tasks very available before the
> maintenance command was introduced i.e gc,commit-graph,gc and
> incremental repack.

> Is there a way for me to find out in which version these commands have
> been introduced? Based on this we can support legacy git version.

One manual method is to look at the history (blame) for the respective man pages to see when the man page was initially committed, and when appropriate options were added.

Maybe use one of the hosting providers GUI if that is your choice e.g. https://github.com/git/git/blame/master/Documentation/git-gc.txt

-- Philip