Highlights from Git 2.46

Git 2.46 has been released, featuring improvements and bug fixes from over 96 contributors, including 31 new ones, and introduces several notable updates such as faster traversals with pseudo-merge bitmaps, a more user-friendly interface for the git config command, and enhancements to the credential helper protocol. The release also supports the experimental reftable storage backend, allowing for near constant-time lookups and atomic updates, and offers a new --no-advice option to suppress all advice messages during scripting. Additionally, Git has started converting some integration tests to unit tests to facilitate more efficient testing of lower-level components. The Git Merge conference, co-hosted by GitHub and GitButler, will take place in Berlin on September 19-20, offering talks by developers working on Git and related tools, with a call for proposals closing on August 8.