What's new in Git 2.46.0?

Git v2.46.0 introduces several significant improvements and features contributed by both GitLab's Git team and the wider Git community. A notable update is the introduction of the reftables backend, enabling improved management of large repositories by offering a new format for storing references and a new git-refs command for backend migrations. Additionally, transactional symref updates have been expanded, allowing users to perform atomic reference updates with new symref instructions. The user experience for git-config has been enhanced with new subcommands, aligning it more closely with modern Git command practices. Performance regression issues linked to attribute lookups in bare repositories have been addressed by partially reverting the attr.tree configuration. The release also includes efforts to migrate some tests to a new C-based unit-testing framework, thanks to contributions from Google Summer of Code participants. Furthermore, fixes to the bundle-uri mechanism have been implemented to optimize performance by preventing redundant data fetching.

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