Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 39

[chriscool]

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-39.md

Feel free to comment in this issue, or to 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 on Wednesday May 16th!

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @gaalcaras @gitster @stefanbeller

[chriscool]

For information here are what @jnareb suggested on #285:

• [Problem] test_must_fail makes possibly questionable assumptions about exit_code. which began on 27 Feb 2018 and with last activity from 1 Mar 2018
• Optimizing writes to unchanged files during merges?... which began on 12 Apr 2018, so perhaps it would be better suited for the next edition, covering the month of April.
• "commit-graph" threads (3 series so far,... oops 4 series) by Derrick Stolee - still going strong

[jnareb]

One thing that would be good to have in this edition would be to introduce Google Summer of Code 2018 students and projects they undertake.

• GSoC students and mentors in 2018
• Git Projects | Google Summer of Code

[chriscool]

@jnareb yeah sure. I think we often did that (maybe too shortly) the previous times.

[jnareb]

Pratik Karki, one of GSoC participants (doing Convert interactive rebase to C), promised to blog about it:

• [GSoC] Info: new blog series of my work on Git GSoC '18
• the blog in question - "git" category

[chriscool]

@jnareb yeah I just merged Dscho's commit about Pratik's blog.

[jnareb]

Paul Ungureanu, one of 3 GSoC 2018 participants (doing Convert “git stash” to builtin) is also starting a blog about it:

• [GSoC] A blog about 'git stash' project - announcement on git mailing list
• Paul's Blog - Google Summer of Code 2018 - the blog in question

[jnareb]

In "Light reading", the series of 2 posts by Joe Neeman about Pijul's merging algorithm was already present in previous edition of Git Rev News.

[jnareb]

Nice there is currently much work done to make git faster on large repositories:

• commit-graph work
• protocol v2
• reftable in Git (from JGit, like bitmaps)

[jnareb]

Alban Gruin, the last of 3 GSoC 2018 participants for Git (doing Convert interactive rebase to C) is like the rest starting a blog about it.

• [GSoC] Yet another blog series about the GSoC - announcement on git mailing list
• Mon coin sur l’Internet - posts with GSoC 2018 category, starting with GSoC with git, week 1 : community bonding

[chriscool]

Thanks @jnareb!

[chriscool]

@jnareb @dscho I finished a draft of an article about the GSoC with what you posted.

[chriscool]

@jnareb ok I removed the pijul related news. Thanks!

[dscho]

I removed the pijul related news. Thanks!

Umm why?

[dscho]

Umm why?

(I thought that previous issues covered only the first post.)

[jnareb]

@dscho both posts about Pijul merge algorithm were linked to in previous issue

• Merging and patches: https://jneem.github.io/merging/
• Merging, patches, and pijul: https://jneem.github.io/pijul/

[chriscool]

@dscho I agree with @jnareb. I removed the following:

• Joe Neeman posted a series of blog posts about patch theory and pijul (yet another animal in the Version Control System zoo). Read this if you are interested in merge algorithms.

The above contains links to https://jneem.github.io/merging/ and https://jneem.github.io/pijul/ which are both already in edition 38.

The other link in what I removed is https://pijul.com/ but it points to the same content as https://pijul.org/ which is also in edition 38.

[jnareb]

Please check that in 3f21037b2a69d68403603a75b559ee97d5d62f2f I have added the correct missing URL for the link

[chriscool]

@jnareb yeah it looks good to me, thanks!

[jnareb]

@chriscool thanks for checking the correction.

A few more links in 69d97555d20f391345614590304f6cf92e8bfed2 - temporarily on separate branch.

[jnareb]

I'm working on adding a part about commit-graph feature that is in the process of being added; if you could wait a bit with the release. Thanks in advance.

[chriscool]

Yeah sure I will wait until at least 1pm CEST on Wednesday.

[jnareb]

It looks as I wouldn't be able to write it in time... but the work on commit-graph continues, so it can be in the next release.

I have pushed my links in bcaf74881686bfdfa496f31171c8fc93086e41a8

[chriscool]

Yeah sure, no problem to have it in the next issue.

Thanks for your links and pushing everything. I am going to publish this edition.

[jnareb]

Sketch of Serializing Commit Graph currently in Serialized Commit Graph sketch - for Git Rev News gist.