Azure DevOps Blog

Introducing Scalar: Git at scale for everyone

Derrick StoleeFebruary 12, 2020Feb 12, 202002/12/20

Git is a distributed version control system, so by default each Git repository has a copy of all files in the entire history. Even moderately-sized teams can create thousands of commits adding hundreds of megabytes to the repository every month. As your repository grows, Git may struggle to manage all that data. Time spent waiting for git ...

Updates to the Git Commit Graph Feature

Derrick StoleeNovember 11, 2019Nov 11, 201911/11/19

In a previous blog series, we announced that Git has a new commit-graph feature, and described some future directions. Since then, the commit-graph feature has grown and evolved. In the recently released Git version 2.24.0, the commit-graph is enabled by default! Today, we discuss what you should know about the feature, and what you can expect...

A Deep Dive into Git Performance using Trace2

Jeff HostetlerAugust 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19

A deep dive into using the new Git Trace2 feature to study Git performance problems on very large repos.

Exploring new frontiers for Git push performance

Derrick StoleeMay 15, 2019May 15, 201905/15/19

In previous posts I've talked about performance improvements that our team contributed to the Git community. At Microsoft, we've been pushing Git to its limits with the largest and busiest Git repositories on the planet, improving core Git as we go and sending these improvements back upstream. With Git 2.21.0 and later you can take advantage ...