Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 139

@jnareb

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-139.md

Feel free to comment in this issue, suggest topics, suggest persons to interview, or use the edit button (that looks like a pen) to edit and create a pull request with the changes you would like.

Let's try to publish this edition around the end of September 2026!

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @sivaraam @gitster @stepnem

In this edition we might want to talk about the following:

Git Merge 2026
end of GSoC 2026 with all the contributors passing the final evaluation
Git participating in Outreachy December 2026 cohort

Maybe this will interest you: https://github.com/ciembor/git-hooks-ext

I'm looking for feedback and hoping to get some attention from the Git community.

Maybe this will interest you: https://github.com/ciembor/git-hooks-ext I'm looking for feedback and hoping to get some attention from the Git community.

@ciembor thank you for sharing, this looks useful (in theory; I have never had a use for the reference-transaction hook myself so far). My main feedback, having looked at the README and a bit of the documentation, is that I would suggest changing the project/tool name to something more fitting like "git-reference-transaction-hook-ext": 1. "git-hooks-ext" makes it sound like something much more general than it appears to be (i.e., only extending one of the many built-in git hooks) 2. a longer, more descriptive name brings little inconvenience here as the direct interaction with the command seems limited (installation, events listing) 3. the project repo is 4 hours old, so any renaming churn caused should be minimal

@stepnem

@stepnem

Thanks, that's a fair concern.

The reason I chose git-hooks-ext is that I don't want the project to stay limited to reference-transaction. That's just the first mechanism I'm using to expose additional semantic events.

Initially I only needed a branch-created hook. While looking into how to implement it, I realized that reference-transaction provides enough information to derive many more useful events, so the first version ended up exposing 19 semantic events for branches, remote branches, tags, stashes, and notes.

The longer-term goal is to keep extending this idea using other existing Git hooks and mechanisms as well. For example, events around commits, amend, rebase, merge, checkout/branch switching, detached HEAD, received pushes, and other operations where Git exposes enough reliable information.

So while git-reference-transaction-hook-ext would describe the current implementation more precisely, I think it would also make the project name too narrow for where I want to take it. The goal is essentially to provide as many useful missing semantic Git hook events as can be implemented reliably.

That said, I agree the README should make this broader scope much clearer.

@chriscool

In this edition we might want to talk about the following:

Git Merge 2026

@chriscool Yes, I agree. For the technical portion of this edition I think it would be a good idea to have a summary on the topics discussed at the contributor summit. Would be great for the wider community to get some insight in things what the maintainers are thinking about.

I'm happy to help writing that summary.

@To1ne

@To1ne, I agree it would be great. Thank you for volunteering to help with that! If you can write a draft, I will be happy to contribute to it.

We should actually take a look at:

I like smallish content creators making videos about Git. So I'd like to add this one https://youtu.be/KY4RDCpPHI0.

Draft email sent: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD1cA5uCpLRoozRMzemFwMbs9=ug+OQq3ATQcMA9HMK72A@mail.gmail.com/

@chriscool

I included the Git Merge participation and pushed as 2672f04 amd 59c1f59 (excuse the redudant commit).

I raised the following PR to include the GSoC and Outreachy details: #870 (thanks @chriscool for merging it!)

@sivaraam

@sivaraam, thanks for the small but great articles about the upcoming Outreachy round, the previous GSoC round and the recent Git Merge!

@sivaraam

@sivaraam My apologies I wasn't able to write a summary about the Git Contributor Summit, I simply totally forgot about it. But I agree with what you've written in the draft right now.

I'm a bit late - first part of my links have landed in 6db86ff and 5796142 , I'll try to add the rest of them soon.

@jnareb

@jnareb, especially do you plan to add links related to those listed above? Except the one about git-hooks-ext which you have already added, the others don't seem to be part of this edition.

Please let me know in particular what you want to do about the related PRs, or just take a look at them and decide there.

There is also the YouTube link suggested by @To1ne above.

I have a few more links I'd like to add, and I can then review links in this PR.

@jnareb

@jnareb, yes, please take a look at:

rn-139: add WebTerm Learn to Git tools and sites #867
Rev News edition 138: add crux to Other News #858
rn-137: Add learngit.io updates to tools & sites #855
Minor copy edit #871 (it's merged but I have doubts about the second commit)
@To1ne 's suggestion about adding https://youtu.be/KY4RDCpPHI0 above.

@T…

rn-139: Add "Your .gitconfig Is Missing These" video, suggested by @T…

@chriscool

I have added the rest of my links in 581ec2d

@jnareb, yes, please take a look at:

rn-139: add WebTerm Learn to Git tools and sites #867

Added in d4a37b5

Rev News edition 138: add crux to Other News #858

Added in 1e5d4ae

rn-137: Add learngit.io updates to tools & sites #855

Already mentioned in previous editions of Git Rev News.

Minor copy edit #871 (it's merged but I have doubts about the second commit)

I have forgot about this.

@To1ne 's suggestion about adding https://youtu.be/KY4RDCpPHI0 above.

Added in 002b539

Thanks @chriscool for the patience.

@jnareb

@jnareb, thanks for all the added links.

@mjaix

Edition published and announced in: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD0KAHvXvV-SqLd=sYohTvcgm2Dd52EfEY1XEbt3649Htg@mail.gmail.com/

@mjaix, you can still add fixes. Thanks.

I find myself currently unable to push to GitHub (the connection just hangs), but here is a patch fixing a typo in the newly added text and a few more nits, in case someone here were able and willing to apply (and push) it: https://smrk.net/tmp/0001-rn-139-minor-copy-edit-part-2.patch

@mjaix

@mjaix Thank you for adding the git-hooks-ext, I hope it will help me to get some attention <3.

If you could reconsider adding the article explaining how it works, I would be really glad. I think it's a good read explaining reference-transactions to the public.

https://dev.to/ciembor/git-hooks-ext-the-missing-git-callbacks-for-reference-transactions-2l3l

Hi, due to some overload @work, I was away of my keyboard ... promise to do the proofreading later this evening. Sorry for being unresponsive ...

@mjaix Thank you for adding the git-hooks-ext, I hope it will help me to get some attention <3.

If you could reconsider adding the article explaining how it works, I would be really glad. I think it's a good read explaining reference-transactions to the public.

https://dev.to/ciembor/git-hooks-ext-the-missing-git-callbacks-for-reference-transactions-2l3l

Let's consider it for edition 140 (though I can also add it as sidenote to the existing link...).

Hi @stepnem, thanks a lot for your patch - I used it as foundation for 95b9601. Best regards, Markus

Supplied @stepnem's patch and some tiny fixes with 95b9601<95b9601>. Sorry for the late delivery.

@mjaix

Thanks @mjaix and @stepnem for the fixes!

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