[MirageOS-devel] release 0.8.3 of irmin

[Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've just released in opam a new point release of Irmin (0.8.3), which was used 
by Dave Scott to produce an awesome video of a Xen VM booting using an 
Irmin-backed version of Xenstore: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSzvFwIVm5s

The full list of changes:
* Views now keep track of their parent commits - this makes View.merge_path 
looks like a merge between branches. All the view operations are squashed into 
a unique commit.
* Add View.rebase_path (same behaviour as the previous View.merge_path)
* Better graphs, where we only show the commit history (the full graph is still 
available using `--full` on the command-lineor or `?full=1` on the web 
interface)
* By default, do not call `dot` when dumping a graph on the command-line. `dot` 
does not like big graphs, but that's still useful to have the `.dot` file to 
analyze it.

The only missing feature before the 1.0 release is the implementation of a 
simple GC to collect old/unreachable objects in the store. Don't expect 
something too clever here, but this is needed to deploy Irmin on real systems 
with limited resources.

Best,
Thomas


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