Git Mini Summit 2025
2025-08-28
Amsterdam, Netherlands
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome | 02m | |
Conference opens with a quick schedule and logistics: five talks across the day plus panel discussion and AMA at the end, with a short break between sessions… | ||
| GitButler | Scott Chacon | 16m |
GitButler ships a CLI called butt that builds real Git commits and adds stacked and parallel branches, butt status-f to list files per commit, and multiple… | ||
| The reftable backend: What it is, where it's headed, and why should you care? | Patrick Steinhardt | 23m |
Ref table becomes a real, shipping refs backend merged in Git 2.45 and adds binary tables.list/tables files for atomic multi-ref updates; libgit2 gains a full… | ||
| Pushing Git repos over the speed limit. | Luca Milanesio | 28m |
GerritForge and partners report concrete speedups: using a Gatling extension to compress one year of traffic into an hour, tuning bitmap parameters cuts bitmap… | ||
| Branching in a Monorepo | Mark Juggurnauth-Thomas | 24m |
Meta implements directory branching that keeps multiple copies of a subtree side by side and stores metadata in commit headers linking copies to their sources… | ||
| Extending Git without breaking it | Adrian Ratiu | 18m |
Three patch series propose concrete, reviewable changes: fix submodule path collisions by encode submodule names (URL‑style encoding extended to handle case… | ||
| Panel: How to ensure the Git community is... | Emily Shaffer, Patrick Steinhardt | 44m |
Git relies on paid programs like Google Summer of Code and Outreachy to onboard contributors, sees a rough time-to-merge ~1 month median but an anecdotal range… | ||
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