Not only related, but that submission is just a different mirror for the same emailed release announcement.
> Lift code from GitHub to restrict delta computation so that an object that exists in one fork is not made into a delta against another object that does not appear in the same forked repository.
Must be pretty great to be a Github engineer that contributed this to the product to see it upstreamed.
That GitHub engineer already has more than 3000 patches in git.git :)
It amazes me how Junio Hamano maintains one of the most important open source projects out there while flying completely under the radar.
I wonder how Linus found him - was he an early contributor to Git?
"I think one of my biggest successes is actually outside Linux: recognizing how good a developer Junio Hamano was on git, and trusting him enough to just ask if he would be willing to maintain the project." - Linus Torvalds