Git Merge 2026

Placeholder. Details below are from git-merge.com; per-talk notes are not yet filled in.

Basics

Field	Value
Event	Git Merge 2026 (v2026.0)
Dates	<2026-09-16 Wed>–<2026-09-18 Fri> (JJ Con Sep 16)
Venue	Suspenso, Lisbon, Portugal (suspenso.pt)
Framing	In-person conference for everyone who works on or with Git
Hosts	GitButler, OpenAI; JJ Con by Google; social by GitLab
URL	https://git-merge.com/

Three days: a Jujutsu pre-conference, a curated talks day, and a contributors/unconference day.

Day	Track	What
Wed Sep 16	JJ Con	Jujutsu (jj) day hosted by Google: intro sessions, Git-interop deep dives, ecosystem talks, tips
Thu Sep 17	Git Talks Day	~12 curated talks, lightning sessions, keynotes; evening social hosted by GitLab
Fri Sep 18	Unconf + Summit	Attendee-run unconference on Git/VCS futures; a core-contributor summit runs in parallel

Speaker	Affiliation	Talk
Scott Chacon	GitButler	Git Meta — The Git Notes we deserve
Taylor Blau	OpenAI	Git at OpenAI
Olamide Caleb Bello & Usman Akinyemi	Git contributors	The Libification of Git: From Global State to Repository-Aware APIs
Patrick Steinhardt	GitLab	Evolving Git for the Next Decade
Tomas Reimers	Anysphere	TBA
brian m. carlson	GitHub	Rust in Git: Status, Internals, and Features
Elijah Newren	GitHub	TBA
Emily Shaffer	Google	TBA
Raphaël Gomès & Pierre-Yves David	Octobus	Checking out another branch of Version Control
Toon Claes	GitLab	Git Smartlog: Can't See the Branches for the Trees

Recorded: talks published a few weeks after. Student / maintainer / OSS discounts available.

Three threads on this programme land on active wal.sh work.

Jujutsu (jj) and Git interop. An entire pre-conference day on the jj model — the conflict-as-first-class, working-copy-as-commit approach to version control that reframes the merge problem the multi-agent collaboration work keeps hitting: concurrent edits to a shared artifact.
Git at OpenAI / Anysphere / Cursor. Taylor Blau on Git at OpenAI and Tomas Reimers (Anysphere) put the version-control substrate of agentic dev on the main stage — the worktree-isolation and review/merge model tested hands-on in jwalsh/agentic-collab-lab.
Libification of Git; Rust in Git. "From Global State to Repository-Aware APIs" is the same repository-aware-API move that makes a tool safe to drive from many concurrent agents at once.