Highlights from Git 2.56

Git 2.56.0, developed with contributions from more than 104 people, introduces safety improvements, performance optimizations, and new tools for managing repositories and history. A new `git add --resolved` command stages only resolved merge-conflict files while detecting leftover conflict markers and preserving unrelated local edits. Merge-base calculations now stop unnecessary history traversal sooner, producing substantial speedups in large repositories, while path-walk repacking can now work with reachability bitmaps and delta islands, allowing hosting providers to evaluate major storage reductions without sacrificing serving performance. Other additions include experimental commands for dropping commits and linearizing history, consolidated low-level reference management under `git refs`, bulk deletion of branches already merged upstream, automatic reset options for `git bisect run`, and command-line suggestions for common syntax mistakes. The release also improves partial-clone cleanup by allowing recoverable large blobs to be removed locally, makes `git log --follow` more reliable across non-linear rename histories, clarifies graph output involving unrelated roots, and removes several scaling bottlenecks that significantly accelerate operations involving large numbers of refs, packs, files, and index entries.

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