Any comment about upcoming Git Rev News edition 129

[chriscool]

A currently mostly empty draft will be there soon:

https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-129.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 November 2025!

Thanks!

cc @jnareb @mjaix @sivaraam @gitster @stepnem

[benknoble]

Possibly of interest? https://benknoble.github.io/blog/2025/11/14/git-patch-series-length/

[gitster]

Interesting attempt, but you are rolling topics longer than 20 commits as if they all have only 20, I suspect.

[jnareb]

Interesting attempt, but you are rolling topics longer than 20 commits as if they all have only 20, I suspect.

It seems so: see the first "figure" in the "Barchart" section

0      1
1   5456 ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
2   1073 ██████████████
3    618 ████████
4    384 █████
5    253 ███
6    217 ███
7    176 ██
8    122 ██
9    105 █
10   102 █
11    79 █
12    56 █
13    44 █
14    36
15    34
16    30
17    19
18    12
19    18
20    22
21+  137 ██

(I have changed "20" to "20+" in the above "figure".)

This is of course the default - you can configure merge.log to be larger than 20 (that is what merge.log = true gives).

[benknoble]

Thanks both―I'll look for a better way to get the long tail :)

[benknoble]

I've updated the analysis and post, thanks!

[chriscool]

@benknoble, thanks for the suggestion and the rework.

@gitster and @jnareb thanks for reviewing it.

[chriscool]

Draft email sent: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD0X5iRhmQbXp3hygk=2RFm-wepo2TT+JXxd9++zSXepTA@mail.gmail.com/

[jnareb]

My links have landed in 26d969abf6bfd04f4659d495df4753a3ae066766

@benknoble , thanks for the suggestion, I have added your article.

[chriscool]

@jnareb, thanks for the great links!

[chriscool]

@mjaix, not sure if you planned to send fixes or not. If you have some, we can still include them in the next few days. Anyway I hope you are fine.

Edition published and announced in: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAP8UFD3aBo4CNwhOPtExOvr5VfTmCV=Bw7CULpo1_5-62FQStg@mail.gmail.com/