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Evolving Git for the next decade

Janson | Day 1 | 11:00 - 11:50 | Speakers: Patrick Steinhardt

Evolving Git for the next decade
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Abstract

In 2025, the Git project has turned 20 years old, and in these 20 years it has taken over the world of version control systems by storm: nowadays, almost every developer uses Git. But that doesn't mean that Git is perfect and "done", or even close to it. It still has many warts: user experience, arbitrary limitations, performance issues and no good support for large binary files are just some of the issues that users commonly complain about.

In this talk you'll learn what is happening in the Git project to address these issues. The talk will cover both recent additions to Git that make your life easier, as well as ongoing development that is expected to land in the not-too-distant future.

Speakers

Patrick Steinhardt

I started diving into Linux in 2002 when I was 11 years old. I was initially just playing around with shiny tools like Compiz, but this has eventually kickstarted my interest in open source software. I made various drive-by contributions to all kinds of different projects since then: GRUB, pacman and NixOS are only a small set of projects I contributed to.

In 2015 though I started to focus my efforts on Git and libgit2 and eventually became core contributor to both of these projects. Nowadays I'm staff engineer and engineering manager of the Git team at GitLab, where I am coordinating our upstream contributions to the Git project.

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