From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C49C433EF for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:43:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S237523AbiDNOpU (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:45:20 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52586 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1352662AbiDNOck (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:32:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66D2CCD644 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host-84-13-159-41.opaltelecom.net ([84.13.159.41] helo=[192.168.1.37]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1nf0Oa-0009gE-CK; Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:24:29 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:24:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.8.0 Subject: Re: [GSoC][RFC][PROPOSAL] Reachability bitmap improvements Content-Language: en-GB To: Taylor Blau , Abhradeep Chakraborty Cc: git , Kaartic Sivaraam References: <20220406200440.27010-1-chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> From: Philip Oakley In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Abhradeep, On 13/04/2022 20:29, Taylor Blau wrote: >> 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.