Git 2.55.0 released | SWE Digest

Category: Dev tools
Status: confirmed
Sources: tag, release notes
Summary: Git 2.55.0 was tagged 2026-06-29. The fsmonitor daemon is now implemented for Linux, configuration-defined hook scripts can run in parallel, and two new builtins were added: git format-rev for pretty-formatting one revision per line and git url-parse exposing the internal URL parser. git checkout -m now creates a stash so local changes that conflict can be re-resolved, git rev-list and the git log family gained --max-count-oldest, and git push learned to target a named remote group to push to multiple remotes at once. Terminal control sequences arriving over the sideband from a remote are now mostly disabled by default, with ANSI color escapes the exception.
Why it matters: A Linux fsmonitor daemon speeds status and diff on large working trees on the most common server and CI platform, and disabling sideband terminal control sequences by default closes a class of terminal-injection surface in remote operations.