Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 68

[chriscool]

A currently mostly empty draft is there:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-68.md

Feel free to comment in this issue, suggest topics, suggest persons to interview, or use the edit button (that looks like a pen) to edit and create a pull request with the changes you would like.

Let's try to publish this edition on Wednesday October 28th 2020!

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @sivaraam @gitster

[jnareb]

I would like to suggest the following topics

• The discussion and patches related to new git maintenance command proposed, extending git gc and grouping various maintenance actions (this is I think still ongoing in various parts)
• War on dashed-git (and discussion that lead to it) - might be good to provide advanced warning about removing long-deprecated feature -- even though it was mostly earlier
• Question About Git V2 Protocol & SHA256 might be interesting to some (together with link to LWN article about Mercurial and SHA-1)

Probably for the next edition:

• Feature request: Exponential search in git bisect, with some good comments on how to improve "feature not present" case when bisecting

[chriscool]

Thanks @jnareb! Yeah, these subjects are interesting for me too.

[jnareb]

Another issue worth mentioning would be upcoming changes to Google Summer of Code for 2021 (announced at GSoC 2020 Virtual Mentors Summit).

[sivaraam]

Another issue worth mentioning would be upcoming changes to Google Summer of Code for 2021 (announced at GSoC 2020 Virtual Mentors Summit).

I came to know about this in the post-summit e-mail but don't know the details as I missed the final session. Is there a public document which details the changes yet? From the post-summit e-mail it appears that there won't be a public announcement until Oct 26th.

[chriscool]

I attended the final session but don't know much more than what was announced then.

[csware]

Could you please include the news that TortoiseGit 2.11 was released?

[chriscool]

@csware Ok to mention TortoiseGit 2.11.

[jnareb]

My links have landed in 51c0da0

[chriscool]

@csware TortoiseGit release landed in 21f36f4

[chriscool]

I have had health issues and related medical examinations during the last days, but things look good to me and my doctor in this area now :-) I will send the announce of the draft to the mailing list soon...

[sivaraam]

Take care, Christian. ✌️

[sivaraam]

I've added the interview with Matheus in 3cbf857.

[chriscool]

@jnareb infos about GSoC 2021 are in 88bbb83

[mjaix]

provided a really tiny set of typo fixes and rephrasings with 4cb8139, though wondering whether "bit" is built "on top of git" or "on top of Git" (opted for the former one). Please correct if I am wrong ... @chriscool: all the best!

[chriscool]

@mjaix 4cb8139 added some space chars in front of the --- chars in the first line of edition 68. Fixed in 1cb6164.

[chriscool]

Thanks @mjaix for the fixes, @sivaraam for the interview and @jnareb for the links!

[chriscool]

Published on Friday October 30th. Announced in:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD2_WxCvnnMH=HfDDdaffzvNf4R1c7W35Y-aZxWb3=BfWg@mail.gmail.com/