Re: [PATCH] negotiator/skipping: skip commits during fetch

Jonathan Tan [off-list ref] writes:

Introduce a new negotiation algorithm used during fetch that skips
commits in an effort to find common ancestors faster. The skips grow
similarly to the Fibonacci sequence as the commit walk proceeds further
away from the tips. The skips may cause unnecessary commits to be
included in the packfile, but the negotiation step typically ends more
quickly.

Usage of this algorithm is guarded behind the configuration flag
fetch.negotiationAlgorithm.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <redacted>
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This is on jt/fetch-pack-negotiator, but also applies cleanly on
jt/fetch-nego-tip.

Sounds sensible.

Unfortunately, this one is among many others that get hurt by
needless semantic conflicts caused by reusing the old function name
and changing the function signature to pass the_repository thru some
codepaths, without adding transition macros.  I am running out of
time today as I need some post-office-move clean-ups before getting
organized enough, so I expect I won't be able to clean it up and
push it out on 'pu' by the end of day today.

Thanks.