The commits referenced in the blog post look to be from the Scalar team lead as well. Looks like some of their work is getting upstreamed which is exciting. [2]
Although, I wonder what this means for the Scalar project itself.
[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/introducing-scalar/
[2] e.g., https://github.com/git/git/compare/26bb5437f6defed72996b6a2b...
Putting background maintenance into Git was actually part of our effort to get Scalar on Linux.
You might be interested in our "Philosophy of Scalar" [1] document, which includes this paragraph:
> Scalar intends to do very little more than the standard Git client. We actively implement new features into Git instead of Scalar, then update Scalar only to configure those new settings. In particular, we are porting features like background maintenance to Git to make Scalar simpler and make Git more powerful.
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar/blob/main/docs/philosoph...