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A new builtin helps users manage their sparse-checkout files.
A new "cone mode" improves performance
for a common pattern type.
Git v2.25.0
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Write the Git commit-graph after every `git fetch` operation, ensuring that the repo
is optimized for the new objects.
Git v2.24.0
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Create new `feature.*` config options that group other config options together.
Provides recommendations for users who do not want to read every config setting.
Git v2.24.0
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Speeds up
git commit-graph write by amortizing writes across many small writes (and few big writes).
Git v2.23.0
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Use the multi-pack-index to repack the object store incrementally in a highly-available environment.
Git v2.23.0
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Speeds up
git push for developers working in a small cone of a large repo.
Git v2.21.0
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Significantly speeds up
git log --graph calls when the commit-graph feature is enabled.
Git v2.20.0
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Verify the multi-pack-index file for corruption.
Git v2.20.0
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Collect and reorganize commit walking code, and improve several algorithms in the process.
Git v2.20.0
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Create a new file to index objects across multiple pack-files.
Git v2.20.0
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Verify the commit-graph file for corruption, and write the file automatically during repo maintenance.
Git v2.20.0
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Compute generation numbers in the commit-graph file and use them in some commit walks.
Git v2.19.0
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Create a new data structure and file format to store a compact representation of the commit history.
Git v2.18.0
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Significantly improve the mechanism for computing the shortest unambiguous abbreviation of an object
ID.
Git v2.17.0
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Summarizes some of the Scalar announcement blog post, with additional details from an email interview.
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Prominently discusses the sparse-checkout feature
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Features a discussion of the sparse-checkout feature.
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Features a discussion of feature macros and `fetch.writeCommitGraph`.
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Features a discussion of multi-pack-index repack/expire and incremental commit-graph.
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Features a discussion of the incremental commit-graph feature.
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I was awarded a Google Open Source Peer Bonus for my contributions to Git.
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Links to BDFL.
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Features a discussion of the review around the new sparse push algorithm.
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Includes description of multi-pack-index feature.
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John Briggs discusses several Microsoft contributions and how they improve
performance for the Windows OS repository. Features commit-graph,
multi-pack-index, background prefetch, and sparse push algorithm.
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Features a summary of the support email thread "commit-graph is cool".
Also discusses the RFC on Generation Number v2.
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Includes an update on the commit-graph feature (in the "Cooking" section).
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Highlighted in a developer spotlight.
