Highlights from Git 2.56

Highlights from Git 2.56 Elijah Newren · @newren September 28, 2026 | 8 minutes Share: The open source Git project just released Git 2.56.0 with features and bug fixes from over 104 contributors, 39 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.55 was released .

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• Elijah Newren · @newren September 28, 2026 | 8 minutes Share: The open source Git project just released Git 2.56.0 with features and bug fixes from over 104 contributors, 39 of them new.
• We last caught up with you on the latest in Git back when 2.55 was released .
• To celebrate this most recent release, here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
• Stage resolved conflicts without staging everything else Resolving a merge conflict has two distinct parts.
• First, you edit the working tree until each conflicted path contains the result you want.
• Then, you stage those paths to tell Git that the conflict is resolved.