Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.17.0-rc1

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 3/25/2018 2:42 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25 2018, Derrick Stolee wrote:
>
>> On 3/23/2018 1:59 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 21 2018, Junio C. Hamano wrote:
>>>
>>>> A release candidate Git v2.17.0-rc1 is now available for testing
>>>> at the usual places.  It is comprised of 493 non-merge commits
>>>> since v2.16.0, contributed by 62 people, 19 of which are new faces.
>>> I have this deployed on some tens of K machines who all use git in one
>>> way or another (from automated pulls, to users interactively), and rc0
>>> before that, with a few patches on top from me + Takato + Duy + Derrick
>>> since rc0 was released (and since today based on top of rc1). No issues
>>> so far.
>>>
>>> The specific in-house version I have is at:
>>> https://github.com/git/git/compare/v2.17.0-rc1...bookingcom:booking-git-v2018-03-23-1
>> Thanks for testing the commit-graph feature, Ævar! I'm guessing you
>> have some mechanisms to ensure the 'git commit-graph write' command is
>> run on these machines and 'core.commitGraph' is set to true in the
>> config? I would love to hear how this benefits your org.
> I haven't deployed any actual use of it at a wider scale, but I've done
> some ad-hoc benchmarking with our internal version which has your
> patches, and the results are very promising so far on the isolated test
> cases where it helps (that you know about, e.g. rev-list --all).
>
> So sorry, I don't have any meaningful testing of this, I just wanted an
> easy way to ad-hoc test it & make sure it doesn't break other stuff for
> now.
>
> I also threw out most of the manual git maintenance stuff we had and
> just rely on gc --auto now, so as soon as you have something to
> integrate with that, along with those perf changes Peff suggested I'm
> much more likely to play with it in some real way.

Thanks. Integration with 'gc --auto' is a high priority for me after the 
patch lands.

The version on GitHub [1] is slightly ahead of v6 as I wait to reroll on 
v2.17.0. It includes Peff's improvements to inspecting pack-indexes [2].

[1] https://github.com/derrickstolee/git/pull/2
[2] 
https://github.com/derrickstolee/git/pull/2/commits/cb86817ee5c5127b32c93a22ef130f0db6207970