[GSoC] Abhradeep's GSoC blogs

Abhradeep Chakraborty· Jun 20, 2022, 10:44 UTC · lore

Hello developers, this is the thread where you can know about my weekly GSoC blog links.

My Project - Reachability bitmap improvements

Blog update ------------

Title - GSoC Week 1: Let's Get started Blog link - https://medium.com/@abhra303/gsoc-week-1-lets-get-started-fad78ec34dcf

Summary -

This is the first blog that I wrote for GSoC. Taylor suggested that I should work on "integrating a lookup table extension" first as it is smaller compared to other sub-projects.

The idea is to have a table at the end of .bitmap file which will contain the offsets (and xor-offsets) of the bitmaps of selected commits. Whenever git try to get the bitmap of a particular commit, instead of loading each bitmaps one by one, git will parse only the desired bitmap by using the offset and xor-offset of the table. This will reduce the overhead of loading each and every bitmap.

Taylor Blau· Jun 22, 2022, 20:51 UTC · re: Abhradeep Chakraborty · lore

Re: [GSoC] Abhradeep's GSoC blogs

Hi Abhradeep!

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 04:14:41PM +0530, Abhradeep Chakraborty wrote:

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> Hello developers, this is the thread where you can know about
> my weekly GSoC blog links.
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> My Project - Reachability bitmap improvements
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> Blog update
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> Title - GSoC Week 1: Let's Get started
> Blog link - https://medium.com/@abhra303/gsoc-week-1-lets-get-started-fad78ec34dcf

I really enjoyed reading your blog post, and would encourage others who are interested in your work on reachability bitmaps to check it out if they haven't already.

I think you did a nice job explaining some background on what bitmaps are, and what they're useful for. I also appreciated your initiative to identify and improve gaps in the Documentation/technical tree ;-).

Now that that series is on the list, I can tell you that you did a great job of turning a WIP patch into a well-structured series. From watching and participating in the thread, I think that review is going well, and you have some interesting areas to look a little further in while you prepare a second revision of the series.

Note that the Git project is going to release v2.37 next week, and so others on the list are likely more focused on ironing out any last bugs before the release, so you may see some more attention towards the middle or end of next week.

In the meantime: you are doing a great job, and I am looking forward to seeing another revision of your series! Let me know if you have any questions in the meantime.

Thanks, Taylor