What's new in Git 2.56.0?

Git 2.56.0 introduces workflow and infrastructure enhancements while outlining a planned transition to Git 3.0 in spring 2027, preceded by Git 2.98 and a long-term-support Git 2.99 release; Git 3.0 is expected to make SHA-256 hashing and reftable reference storage defaults and require Rust, subject to ecosystem readiness. New user-facing commands include `git history drop` for removing a commit and rebasing descendants, branch filters and deletion options for cleaning up merged tracking branches, and expanded `git refs` subcommands for creating, updating, renaming, and deleting references. Four Google Summer of Code projects added metadata-only remote object inspection for partial clones, disk-space recovery through filtered-object removal, additional repository path information, and reduced reliance on global state. The experimental `git replay` command can now linearize histories containing merge commits, while continuing work on pluggable object databases moves storage initialization, consistency checking, housekeeping, pack generation, streams, and transactions behind backend interfaces, supporting future scalability without changing normal user behavior.

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