Git 2.31 Release: Maintenance Moved to Background

By moving the Git maintenance in the background and adding reverse indexes on disk, Git 2.31, intends to make this omnipresent tool more user friendlier and faster when executing common operations like fetch and push.

Git 2.31 sees the light at almost three months after the previous official version. It brings the option of running git maintenance in background and also the addition of reverse index files. You can conclude that its main focus is a more efficient tool with increased usability.

By moving the Git maintenance in the background and adding reverse indexes on disk, Git 2.31, intends to make this omnipresent tool more user friendlier and faster when executing common operations like fetch and push.

Even if most of the time the automatic cleaning mechanisms of various tools are making our lives easier, there are those critical moments when a Git garbage collection (gc) stops our normal flow leaving us staring at a terminal screen. One of these situations is signaled by the following message in case of Git:

Auto packing the repository for optimum performance. You may also run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information.

After this happens, you are stuck waiting regardless of what you were doing. Needless to say that these Git maintenance operations are essential and starting with version 2.31 there is another option: git background maintenance. This new feature allows you to keep your repository healthy while not blocking any of your interactions.

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