Re: Tip: git commit-graph

["Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

>> In the recently released Git version 2.24.0, the commit-graph is enabled by default!
>
> but what it actually seems to mean is that 2.24 changes the defaults
> for two configuration variables to ‘true’:
>
> * ‘core.commitGraph’ which instructs Git to *use* the file if present; and
> * ‘gc.writeCommitGraph’ which instructs it to *create or update* the
> file on every invocation of ‘git gc’.

In addition to that I've added

  git config --global fetch.writeCommitGraph true

I think that's also from the article, not sure anymore.  And the write
I've done with

  git commit-graph write --reachable --changed-paths

because somewhere else it was suggested that that helps with the log of
single files.

> So this answers my question: Users who have not run ‘git gc’ since
> 2019, or ‘git commit-graph write’ ever, will not already have a
> serialized commit graph.

:-)