Taylor Blau

@ttaylorr-oai on GitHub. Posts as me@ttaylorr.com, ttaylorr@openai.com.

6,876

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2,818

patches posted

82%

of 197 series merged

264

threads started

2017

first message, Sep 30, 2017

4 days

since the latest message

Messages per year

The last 24 months

Patch series

Of 202 patch series (re-rolls counted once), 161 landed on master and 36 did not; 5 posted in the last 90 days are still in review.

in reviewrepack: various corner cases for cruft-less MIDXsv2, Oct 1, 2026
in reviewmaintenance: handle geometric repack tasks with promisor pack(s)Aug 5, 2026
in reviewpackfile: harden handling of packs with duplicate entriesJul 24, 2026
in reviewt/helper: teach pack-deltas to list delta entriesJul 13, 2026
in reviewsend-pack: introduce a `no-ref-delta` capabilityJul 13, 2026
mergedmailmap: map Taylor Blau's work addressJul 9, 2026, f60db8d575
not mergedrepack: combine '--geometric' and '--cruft'Jun 26, 2026
mergedpack-objects: support bitmaps and delta-islands with `--path-walk`v5, Jun 21, 2026, 5111520e2a
not mergedmidx: honor custom bases for incremental writesJun 12, 2026
mergedpack-bitmap-write: speed up bitmap generationv2, May 27, 2026, e3959cc78c
mergedrepack: incremental MIDX/bitmap-based repackingv4, May 19, 2026, f0ef2afb8b
mergedpack-bitmap: fix various pseudo-merge bugsv3, May 12, 2026, bc2f611569

A series is merged when one of its patches matches a commit on master by the same author, by subject. Versions are linked when they share a patch subject. Patches reworded before landing, or applied under someone else's name, count as not merged.

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Oct 6, 2026Notes from the Git Contributor's Summit, 2026
Oct 3, 2026Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] repack: include required packs in incremental MIDX writes
Oct 3, 2026Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] repack: track the preferred pack explicitly in MIDX write steps
Oct 3, 2026Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'
Oct 3, 2026Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] repack: follow kept packs when omitting cruft from the MIDX
Oct 2, 2026Re: [PATCH 2/4] pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'
Oct 1, 2026repack: include required packs in incremental MIDX writes
Oct 1, 2026repack: defer allocating the append plan's write step
Oct 1, 2026repack: track the preferred pack explicitly in MIDX write steps
Oct 1, 2026repack: follow kept packs when omitting cruft from the MIDX
Oct 1, 2026repack: use a sorted list for explicitly kept packs
Oct 1, 2026repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs after incremental repacks
Oct 1, 2026pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'
Oct 1, 2026pack-objects: introduce `stdin_packs_context` struct
Oct 1, 2026repack: various corner cases for cruft-less MIDXs
Oct 1, 2026Re: [PATCH 0/4] repack: various corner cases for cruft-less MIDXs
Oct 1, 2026Re: [PATCH 4/4] repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs containing kept packs
Oct 1, 2026Re: [PATCH 3/4] repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs after incremental repacks
Oct 1, 2026Re: [PATCH 2/4] pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'
Oct 1, 2026Re: [PATCH 2/4] pack-objects: ensure tree/tag closure with '--stdin-packs=follow'
Oct 1, 2026Re: [PATCH 1/4] pack-objects: introduce `stdin_packs_context` struct
Sep 30, 2026repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs containing kept packs
Sep 30, 2026repack: retain cruft packs in MIDXs after incremental repacks