Re: [GSoC][RFC][PROPOSAL] Reachability bitmap improvements

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Apr 14, 2022, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID: <fc0015ac-9ad4-d3b4-39ee-0bf4f9c99fa0@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <YlckmDHRAYnE1J5t@nand.local>

Hi Abhradeep,

On 13/04/2022 20:29, Taylor Blau wrote:

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>> Though I had read many documentations, I was still not able to fully
>> understand the terminologies (like `refs`, `packfiles`, `blobs`, `trees`
>> etc.). (ProGit)[https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2] helped me tremendously here.
>> I read the full book and it cleared almost every doubt that came into my mind.
> Terrific! I am really glad that the MyFirst... documents were helpful
> and made it easier for you to contribute. The ProGit book is a great
> resource, too.
>
> If you are looking for more resources, I would encourage you to search
> around for blog posts written by Git contributors, particularly related
> to reachability bitmaps (at least for this GSoC project). Some helpful
> places to start there would be:
>
>     https://github.blog/2015-09-22-counting-objects/
>     https://github.blog/2021-04-29-scaling-monorepo-maintenance/
>

It's also worth looking at the Git Rev News articles and light reading links
     https://git.github.io/rev_news/ and
     https://git.github.io/rev_news/archive/
--
Philip.