nayak

This series was in response to another thread [1] which wanted to make rust mandatory in an upcoming release.

The authors proposal was to instead take the middle ground and use rust as an optional dependency until a later point of time where it becomes mandatory.

The later point of time was decided based on when rust support lands in gcc, which would make things smoother, since platforms which support gcc would also be included.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1980.git.git.1752784344.git...

Even now, the contrast between repository sizes is wide. Most repos contain 1000s of references, which while not the best to run O(N^2) algorithm, is still okay. But as a Git forge, you also see a share of repositories which contain millions of references.

Spot on. Some of our repositories at GitLab can contain millions of references.

OP here. As of recently, GitLab has a dedicated Git team [1]. So our contributions to the project will hopefully increase a lot more :)

[1] https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/infrastruct...

OP here. Feedback is always welcome, I did mean exponentially in the colloquial sense. I do see how it is confusing here, will change it.

Editor is $70 if you want to buy and this book is more than $30. Combined price of both of these is more than I paid for my OS long back. Too much investment for a editor and learning it.