[$] The role of LLMs in patch review

Discussion of a memory-management patch set intended to clean up a helper function for handling huge pages spiraled into something else entirely after it was posted on March 19. M [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1064830/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Git

@abcdw I've been using #jujutsu for the last few weeks. The fact that it's using #git as a backend so other people don't have to convert is great.

The main benefit I see is that it's so easy to rebase and move around in your changes. Still learning though!

I wanted to try darcs and pijul vcs for quite sometime, but never had enough motivation, because it completely new ecosystems with different tooling.

Recently I learned about Jujutsu, which reuses fundamental ideas of darcs, but uses git as a storage backend, so I can use it with existing projects and tools.

https://www.jj-vcs.dev/latest/

I found a demo, and it is pretty neat and makes so much sense:

https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/jj-init/

https://youtu.be/cD9L3Mi1Vy4
https://youtu.be/2otjrTzRfVk

#jj #git #vcs

What's if you could ~$ git clone SWHID?

"You’d end up with git clone as a content-addressed fetch primitive rather than just a URL fetch, which is an interesting building block for reproducible builds and supply chain verification."

A nice write-up by @andrewnez on git remote helpers 👉 https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/18/git-remote-helpers.html

#Git #SWHID #ReproducibleBuilds

[$] The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise

LiteLLM is a gateway library providing access to a number of large language models (LLMs); it is popular and widely used. On March 24, the word went out that the version of LiteLL [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1064693/ #LWN #Linux #security #Python #Git