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Re:Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 by jakub_g on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:55AM (#49799813)
I'm looking forward to reftable to become the default. It solves many problems with branches, like branches with weird characters created with non-standard clients making a fetch impossible; case insensitive branches with "same" names doing the same; or impossible to create branch FOO because FOO/Something exists.

All those problems just go away when branches are no longer files on disk.

I enabled it in setup script of one large repo I maintain; the main issue is the incompatibility with some people's personal tooling based on libgit2 (some git status tooling in oh-my-zsh), but people do find workarounds.

Re:Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 by nayak on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#49900571)
libgit2 now supports reftables, it was upstreamed a while ago.