Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 122

[chriscool]

A currently mostly empty draft will be there soon:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-122.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 around the end of April 2025!

This will also be a special edition as we will celebrate !!!20 years of Git!!! as Git was first released on April 2005 by Linus.

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @sivaraam @gitster @stepnem

[chriscool]

Any idea about what we could do for this special "20 years of Git" edition?

[chriscool]

Here is an idea: instead of writing articles about recent discussions, maybe we could write a few articles about discussions that happened 20 years ago soon after Git was initially released by Linus?

We could also maybe have links to articles about Git written around 20 years ago. It might be hard to find those articles though.

[jnareb]

I have watched how Git was being created by reading KernelTraffic (and the only edition of GitTraffic), but the site is defunct now; even if homepage still works, the archive does not. IIRC.

[chriscool]

It looks like old conversations on the Git mailing list, like https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0507262004320.3227@g5.osdl.org/, are available on lore.kernel.org/git though. So at least, writing articles about discussions that happened 20 years ago is still possible.

[chriscool]

Link suggestion: https://github.com/lucasoshiro/oshit

[sivaraam]

On the interview front, I wonder if it would make any sense to do some kind of community interview where we prepare a specific set of questions for the 20th anniversary. Or more like a community discussion. I'm not yet sure about what the discussion about. I suppose it might cover a variety of topics past and future. May be we could have questions like:

• What's your favorite Git trick or workflow that you wish more people knew about?
• What was your worst Git disaster, and how did you recover from it?
• If you could go back in time and change one design decision in Git, what would it be?
• Which Git feature or improvement over the past 20 years do you think had the biggest impact on your workflow?
• What Git problem that existed 10 years ago has been most successfully solved?
• Which Git commands or workflows do you think are still misunderstood or underutilized today?

I'm also unsure if this would be interesting to pursue and/or relevant to this edition. Kindly share your thoughts.

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The discussions going on the 20th-anniversary discord channel [ref] are also interesting. May be we could do an article based out of it?

[chriscool]

The discussions going on the 20th-anniversary discord channel [ref] are also interesting. May be we could do an article based out of it?

Yeah, good idea!

And maybe we could ask the questions you suggest on the discord channel.

[To1ne]

I just stumbled upon https://devlands.com/ a game about Git. There's more context about it at https://initialcommit.com/blog/im-making-a-git-game

[chriscool]

Thanks @To1ne for the suggestion!

[leereilly]

👋🏻 you could consider highlighting the upcoming Git Merge conference (San Francisco, Sep 29 - 30) and that the call for speakers closes on May 13th?

Other things worth considering adding related to the 20th anniversary:

The Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds video interview.

A few articles I enjoyed reading:

• 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful (Scott Chacon, GitButler)
• Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds (Patrick Steinhardt, GitLab)
• Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds (Taylor Blau, GitHub)
• Journey through Git's 20-year history (Patrick Steinhardt, GitLab)

[jnareb]

Link suggestion: https://github.com/lucasoshiro/oshit

Thanks for the suggestion.

[jnareb]

Other things worth considering adding related to the 20th anniversary:

The Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds video interview.

A few articles I enjoyed reading:

• 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful (Scott Chacon, GitButler)
• Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds (Patrick Steinhardt, GitLab)
• Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds (Taylor Blau, GitHub)
• Journey through Git's 20-year history (Patrick Steinhardt, GitLab)

Thanks for the suggestion. I have stumbled upon maybe one of those links.

[jnareb]

I just stumbled upon https://devlands.com/ a game about Git. There's more context about it at https://initialcommit.com/blog/im-making-a-git-game

Thanks for the suggestion. Added.

[jnareb]

My links have landed in e04bec7.

[sivaraam]

I am lagging behind with the interviews. I need to aggregate the community interview answers. Also, I need to include the short interview with Junio. I'll hopefully get this done by today.

Just updating here to keep others posted.