Hello all,

As you may be aware, the results for GSoC 2026 have been officially announced[1]. We have 4 contributors contributing to Git this year[2]. They are as follows (in no particular order):

  - K Jayatheerth

    Project: Improve the new git repo command [3]
    Mentors: Justin Tobler, Lucas Oshiro

  - Pablo Sabater

    Project: Complete and extend the remote-object-info command for
git cat-file [4]
    Mentors: Karthik Nayak, Chandra Pratap

  - Siddharth Shrimali

    Project: Improve Disk Space Recovery for Partial Clones [5]
    Mentors: Christian Couder, Siddharth Asthana

  - Tian Yuchen

    Project: Refactoring in order to reduce Git’s global state [6]
    Mentors: Christian Couder, Ayush Chandekar

Let us welcome them and wish them a good summer of contributing to Git via GSoC!

Thank you to all the contributors who applied to Git this year! It was a bit tough to choose from multiple potential contributors who all were good in their own respect. Hoping to see you around continuing your contributions to the Git community in some way :-)

Also many thanks to all the mentors who were willing to spend their valuable time mentoring the students this summer. Very much appreciated! Special mention to Ayush, Lucas and Chandra who were GSoC participants in previous years and have volunteered to mentor this year.

[[ References ]]

[1]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/04/the-journey-begins-meet-the-2026-gsoc-contributors.html [2]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations/git [3]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/git/projects/details/O1nF3zMT [4]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/git/projects/details/752yzmwm [5]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/git/projects/details/hs14IFAn [6]: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/git/projects/details/Lx1PmL4k

-- Sivaraam