Git 2.49 released with faster packing, Rust foreign language interface

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/03/14/whats-new-in-git-2-49-0/

Gitlab has the most detailed blog this round

The FFI for now is just a one function as a proof of concept it can be built and called, so don’t drop libgit2 just yet.

I think the new path hash is related to “how we shrunk our javascript monorepo size by 94%” from a few months ago.