Git Merge 2020: a celebration of Git

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This post details GitLab's participation and contributions to Git Merge 2020, highlighting specific technical advancements and collaborations. It discusses Tianyu Pu's talk on 'The Zen of Git' explaining Git's internals, Ed Thomson's ideas on lightweight branching models, and Derrick Stolee's presentation on Scalar for accelerating Git's workflow in large repositories, with plans to contribute it to Git's client. The post also mentions contributions to packfile handling by Peff (GitHub) and Christian Couder (GitLab), and GitLab's ongoing work on stabilizing Partial Clone. It emphasizes the collaborative nature of Git development between enterprises and the community.