Summary

Weeks 9 and 10 saw the successful completion of the git refs list consolidation, with the patch series being accepted for merge. Following this, I began work on the next phases of the project: consolidating git show-ref --exists and git pack-refs.

What I Worked On

The primary focus of these two weeks was finalizing the refs list work and planning the project’s next steps with my mentors.

After addressing a few final nits from Patrick and Junio, I’m thrilled to report that my patch series for consolidating for-each-ref was approved to be merged into the next branch. This marks the official completion of the first major goal of my GSoC project: the consolidation of for-each-ref’s functionality into git refs list.

With that milestone reached, I discussed the next steps with my mentors. We agreed to proceed with consolidating git show-ref --exists into a new git refs exists subcommand. The implementation was quite straightforward, and the code is now complete. However, on my mentor’s advice, I am holding off on sending the patch to the mailing list. We decided it’s best to wait until the refs list series is fully merged into the next branch to ensure a clean patch flow and avoid potential conflicts.

Since I completed the implementation for git refs exists with time to spare, I initiated another discussion about the subsequent command for consolidation. We’ve settled on git pack-refs, which will be brought into the git refs family as git refs optimize. This new subcommand will be responsible for optimizing the storage of references by packing them into a single file, and I have begun the initial groundwork for this task.

What’s Next

In the coming weeks, I plan to:

  • Send the git refs exists patch series to the mailing list as soon as the refs list series is officially merged into the next branch.
  • Complet the implementation for the new git refs optimize subcommand.

On to the next challenge. See you soon!