What's new in Git 2.56.0?

This post details new features in Git 2.56.0, including `git history drop` for easier commit deletion, `--forked` and `--delete-merged` flags for `git branch` to clean up merged branches, and expanded capabilities for `git refs` to create, delete, update, and rename references. It also highlights Google Summer of Code projects co-mentored by GitLab engineers, such as adding `remote-object-info` to `git cat-file` for partial clone metadata retrieval and improving disk space recovery for partial clones with `git repack --drop-filtered`. The post also discusses the roadmap for Git 3.0, including SHA-256 as the default object hash and reftable as the default reference storage format.