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nayakon Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

libgit2 now supports reftables, it was upstreamed a while ago.

nayakon Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system

This series was in response to another thread [1] which wanted to make rust mandatory in an upcoming release.

The authors proposal was to instead take the middle ground and use rust as an optional dependency until a later point of time where it becomes mandatory.

The later point of time was decided based on when rust support lands in gcc, which would make things smoother, since platforms which support gcc would also be included.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1980.git.git.1752784344.git...

nayakon How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

Even now, the contrast between repository sizes is wide. Most repos contain 1000s of references, which while not the best to run O(N^2) algorithm, is still okay. But as a Git forge, you also see a share of repositories which contain millions of references.

nayakon How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

Spot on. Some of our repositories at GitLab can contain millions of references.

nayakon How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

OP here. As of recently, GitLab has a dedicated Git team [1]. So our contributions to the project will hopefully increase a lot more :)

[1]: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastruct...

nayakon How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

OP here. Feedback is always welcome, I did mean exponentially in the colloquial sense. I do see how it is confusing here, will change it.

nayakon Show HN: Sublime Text Book

Editor is $70 if you want to buy and this book is more than $30. Combined price of both of these is more than I paid for my OS long back. Too much investment for a editor and learning it.