The open-source Git project recently released Git 2.41, with features and bug fixes provided by over 95 contributors, including 29 new ones. One of the most notable improvements in this new version of Git is the better handling of unreachable objects. An object is considered unreachable if there is no branch or tag in the repository that could lead you to that object. Removing these unreachable objects helps to compress the size of your repository, but Git does not remove them immediately after running git gc. Instead, the unreachable object must not have been written since a given cutoff point. Git 2.37 introduced the concept of cruft packs, which stores unreachable objects together in a packfile, reducing the negative impact of storing these objects as loose copies. Overall, Git 2.41 makes the process of managing your repository faster and more efficient than ever before.
