Git 2.34 Released With Sparse-Enabled Index Feature, More Performance Work

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Git 2.34 Released With Sparse-Enabled Index Feature, More Performance Work

Git 2.34 is out today as the newest feature update to this widely-used, distributed version control system...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Git-2.34-Released

[bug77]

Every time I read about performance improvements in Git, I pause for little while and think "when was the last time Git was slow?". Still haven't come up with a single instance.

[cl333r]

Every time I read about performance improvements in Git, I pause for little while and think "when was the last time Git was slow?". Still haven't come up with a single instance.

I'm guessing there are full time paid devs to work on it, so eventually they find stuff that can run faster, pretty boring.

[partcyborg]

Every time I read about performance improvements in Git, I pause for little while and think "when was the last time Git was slow?". Still haven't come up with a single instance.

Have you ever used it with a monorepo consisting of several million files across several million total revisions? I'm gonna guess the answer is no, because this isn't really possible right now.

[uid313]

I am sure this is great for all the power users, but as a newbie who is quite slow and dumb, what I would like most is usability improvements to make it more user-friendly.

[Tuxee]

I am sure this is great for all the power users, but as a newbie who is quite slow and dumb, what I would like most is usability improvements to make it more user-friendly.

Won't happen. Breaking the command line tools is a no go. (And won't make things substantially easier - git is already pretty good a suggesting things.) If you want newbie compatible usability you stick to one of the gazillions of gui clients.

[bug77]

Have you ever used it with a monorepo consisting of several million files across several million total revisions? I'm gonna guess the answer is no, because this isn't really possible right now.

So far I've been lucky enough to work with properly modularized projects till now.
I have only heard about Microsoft hitting the problems you talk about and that's only because of historical reasons. I will take performance improvements whenever possible, but partial git checkouts I can live without. They pretty much defeat the purpose of using a DVCS.

[Vistaus]

I am sure this is great for all the power users, but as a newbie who is quite slow and dumb, what I would like most is usability improvements to make it more user-friendly.

You keep saying that in every Git-related thread, but Phoronix is not the right place to post your suggestions.

(also: I'm not a power user and I find Git user-friendly)

[bug77]

I am sure this is great for all the power users, but as a newbie who is quite slow and dumb, what I would like most is usability improvements to make it more user-friendly.

Use Tortoise Git or the integration in your IDE of choice. Git CLI has a steep learning curve if you want to go beyond the basics, but if you're patient enough you'll find there's a reason behind (almost) everything git does and how git does it.

[bug77]

You keep saying that in every Git-related thread, but Phoronix is not the right place to post your suggestions.

(also: I'm not a power user and I find Git user-friendly)

It's just what he does. Git, web browsers, programming languages, he's got a post on the first page complaining about something. Leave him be.