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 __Various__
 * [New book “Boost Your Git DX”](https://adamchainz.gumroad.com/l/bygdx) by Git contributor Adam Johnson, covering tools and configurations to improve your command line workflow.
+* [Git 2.42 release: Here are four of our contributions in detail](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/10/12/contributions-to-git-2-42-release/)
+  by Christian Couder on GitLab Blog.
+    * [Highlights from Git 2.42](https://github.blog/2023-08-21-highlights-from-git-2-42/)
+      link can be found in [Git Rev News Edition #102](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2023/08/31/edition-102/).
 
 __Light reading__
-+ [Investigating Git History](https://www.git-tower.com/blog/investigating-git-history/) by Kristian Lumme on Tower’s blog.
++ [Some miscellaneous git facts](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/20/some-miscellaneous-git-facts/)
+  by Julia Evans on her blog.  The facts are:
+    + the “index”, “staging area” and “-{}-cached” are all the same thing
+    + the stash is a bunch of commits
+    + not all references are branches or tags
+    + merge commits aren’t empty
++ [Why Git is hard](https://roadrunnertwice.dreamwidth.org/596185.html)
+  by Nick Eff on his Roadrunner Twice Dreamwidth's journal,
+  in response to Julia Evans ending her StrangeLoop 2023 keynote talk with
+  “I still don’t know why Git is hard.”
+    + There is some discussion on [programming.dev Lemmy instance](https://programming.dev/post/4051745)
+      about this post.
+    + Various attempts to make Git or version control easier include
+      [Gitless](http://gitless.com/) - first mentioned in [Git Rev News Edition #20](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/10/19/edition-20/),
+      [Jujutsu](https://github.com/martinvonz/jj) - mentioned in [#85](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2022/03/31/edition-85/),
+      and [EasyGit (eg)](https://github.com/dfabulich/easygit) - seem to be not actively developed.
++ [Investigating Git History](https://www.git-tower.com/blog/investigating-git-history/)
+  by Kristian Lumme on Tower’s blog.
++ [Measuring Git performance with OpenTelemetry](https://github.blog/2023-10-16-measuring-git-performance-with-opentelemetry/)
+  by Jeff Hostetler on GitHub Blog.  It describes how to use open source
+  [Trace2](https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt)
+  [receiver component (trace2receiver)](https://github.com/git-ecosystem/trace2receiver)
+  and [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/what-is-opentelemetry/)
+  to capture and visualize telemetry from your Git commands.
++ [What is in that `.git` directory?](https://blog.meain.io/2023/what-is-in-dot-git/)
+  by Abin Simon on meain/blog.
++ [Versioning data in Postgres? Testing a git like approach](https://www.specfy.io/blog/7-git-like-versioning-in-postgres)
+  by Samuel Bodin on his Specfy Blog.
++ [Organizing multiple Git identities](https://garrit.xyz/posts/2023-10-13-organizing-multiple-git-identities)
+  using `.gitconfig` includes,
+  by Garrit Franke on Garrit's Notes blog.
++ [Linux Fu: Deep Git Rebasing](https://hackaday.com/2023/10/17/linux-fu-deep-git-rebasing/)
+  by Al Williams on Hackaday.
++ [Git: Rewriting History 101](https://matheustavares.gitlab.io/posts/rewriting-history-101)
+  by Matheus Tavares (2022).
++ [How to split off an older copy of a file while preserving git line history](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230728-00/?p=108498)
+  by Raymond Chen on Microsoft's The Old New Thing DevBlog.
+    + His older article on [how to duplicate a file while preserving git line history](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190919-00/?p=102904)
+      was mentioned in [Git Rev News Edition #51](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2019/05/22/edition-51/).
++ [Embracing Database Deployments in CI/CD Practices with Git](https://thenewstack.io/embracing-database-deployments-in-ci-cd-practices-with-git/)
+  by Vanessa Fox from PlanetScale on TheNewStack.
+    + [An article]((https://planetscale.com/blog/database-branching-three-way-merge-schema-changes)
+      about [PlanetScale branching support for MySQL](https://planetscale.com/docs/concepts/branching)
+      was mentioned in [Git Rev News Edition #99](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2023/05/31/edition-99/),
+      while PlanetScale as solution was mentioned in set of article about databases and versioning
+      in [Git Rev News Edition #82](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2021/12/30/edition-82/).
++ [TypeScript Monorepo with NPM workspaces](https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/npm-workspaces/)
+  by Dmitry Kudryavtsev on yield code(); blog.
++ [The "Schrödinger's tree object": is it there or not?](https://matheustavares.gitlab.io/posts/empty-tree):
+  Matheus Tavares finds about hard-coded empty tree object (2022).
+
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 __Easy watching__
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 __Git tools and sites__
++ [gittuf](https://gittuf.dev/) provides a security layer for Git
+  using some concepts introduced by [The Update Framework (TUF)](https://theupdateframework.io/).
+  Among other features it handles key management for all developers on the repository,
+  allows you to set permissions for repository branches, tags, files, etc.<br>
+  gittuf is a sandbox project at the [Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)](https://openssf.org/)
+  as part of the [Supply Chain Integrity Working Group](https://github.com/ossf/wg-supply-chain-integrity).
+  It is currently in _alpha_.  Written in Go.
++ [trace2receiver](https://github.com/git-ecosystem/trace2receiver) project
+  is a [trace receiver](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/trace-receiver/) component library
+  for an [OpenTelemetry Custom Collector](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/) daemon.
+  It receives [Git Trace2](https://git-scm.com/docs/api-trace2#_the_event_format_target) telemetry
+  from local Git commands, translates it into an OpenTelemetry format, and forwards it
+  to other OpenTelemetry components.  Written in Go as a static library component
+  that must be linked into an OpenTelemetry Custom Collector.
++ [git-bundle-server](https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-bundle-server)
+  is a web server & management CLI to host Git bundles for use with Git's
+  ["bundle URIs" feature](https://git-scm.com/docs/bundle-uri).
+  By running this software, you can self-host a bundle server.
+  Written in Go, under active development.  Installation on Windows is currently unsupported.
++ [Awesome GitHub Alternatives](https://github.com/ianchanning/awesome-github-alternatives)
+  is a list of alternatives to GitHub, that by default offer Git management in some way.
+  All self-hosted options are free and open source, with GPL-compatibile licenses.
+  Not exhaustive.
++ [src (Simple Revision Control)](http://www.catb.org/esr/src/)
+  is RCS/SCCS reloaded with a modern UI, designed to manage single-file solo projects
+  kept more than one to a directory. Use it for FAQs, `~/bin` directories, config files,
+  and the like.  Written in Python.
+    + Mentioned in passing in [Git Rev News Edition #46](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2018/12/19/edition-46/).
 
 
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