[jeffhostetler]

Thanks! And yes, I'll have a blog post on it. It is currently scheduled to appear on Wednesday on the GitHub blog.

The new `git fsmonitor--daemon` is mostly shared code but with custom "backends" for each platform hidden a small API. Yes, the Mac backend is built using FSEvents. The Windows backend uses ReadDirectoryChangesW. In both cases, the backend has a thread dedicated to receiving these events/notifications from the kernel, normalizing them, and queuing them for future client requests.

For sanity reasons, I had to draw the line at two platforms in the initial implementation.

There have been discussions about doing a Linux version using either inotify or fanotify, but that work has not started. (And $dayjob might keep me busy for a while on other things, so I'm open to others picking up that work.) It shouldn't be too hard given the API boundary and threading that I set up.

Likewise, for BSD.

[rektide]

Here it is! https://github.blog/2022-06-29-improve-git-monorepo-performa... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31924554

[tony]

Nice, thanks for linking this

[tony]

Good that you are on HN now and thanks for this message.

I ended up fetching git 2.37 (from whatever the default Ubuntu impish is at, I believe 2.32)

(I don't know any benchmarking tools for `git(1)`, if your or anyone else does I'm all ears).

I opened up `tig(1)` and `gitui(1)` in a large repo, stuff feels snappier. It could be a placebo. When trying to track where it could be coming from, I have trouble pinning it down:

- 2.33.0: https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.33.0/Documentation/RelNot...

- 2.34.0: https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.34.0/Documentation/RelNot...

- 2.35.0: https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.35.0/Documentation/RelNot...

- 2.36.0: https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.36.0/Documentation/RelNot...

- 2.37.0: https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.37.0/Documentation/RelNot...

This is a VCS that's getting a lot of care given to it.