Highlights from Git 2.56

Git 2.56 is a point release with numbers you’d normally expect from a major one. git merge-base --all v4.8 v4.9 on the Linux kernel went from 167,441 steps to 3,887, and path-walk repacking shrank the Fluent UI pack from 558.5 MB to 164.4 MB. My favourite is the smallest change though: git add --resolved stages only unmerged paths and refuses leftover conflict markers. One whole class of embarrassing commit, gone.