rn-122: Add links to news, articles, videos, and tools

Author: jnareb

rev_news/drafts/edition-122.md

@@ -37,15 +37,104 @@ This edition covers what happened during the months of March 2025 and April 2025
 
 __Various__
 
+* [Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds](https://github.blog/open-source/git/git-turns-20-a-qa-with-linus-torvalds/)
+  by Taylor Blau on GitHub blog.
+* [Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/04/07/celebrating-gits-20th-anniversary-with-creator-linus-torvalds/)
+  by Patrick Steinhardt on GitLab blog.
+* [Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years](https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-built-git-in-10-days-and-never-imagined-it-would-last-20-years/)
+  by Steven Vaughan-Nichols on ZDNet.
+* [20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.](https://blog.gitbutler.com/20-years-of-git/)
+  by Scott Chacon on Butler's Log (GitButler).
+* [Journey through Git's 20-year history](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/04/14/journey-through-gits-20-year-history/)
+  by Patrick Steinhardt on GitLab blog.
+* [GitHub MCP Server is now available in public preview](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-04-github-mcp-server-public-preview/)
+  [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction)
+  is an AI tool calling standard that give LLMs (Large Language Models)
+  a standardized way to call functions, look up data, and interact with the world.
+
 
 __Light reading__
 
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+* [Verifying tricky git rebases with git range-diff](https://andrewlock.net/verifiying-tricky-git-rebases-with-range-diffs/)
+  by Andrew Lock on his .NET Escapades blog.
+* [Mirroring my git repositories](https://dustri.org/b/mirroring-my-git-repositories.html)
+  using [cgit](https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/) for the interface, and nginx as a web server.
+  By Julien (jvoisin) Voisin on their7 blog.
+* [Mirroring my Repositories from GitHub to GitLab](https://cleberg.net/blog/git-mirror.html),
+  including both public and private repositories on GitLab Fre tier.
+  By Christian Cleberg on his blog.
+* [Documentation as Code with AsciiDoctor, GitLab CI, and GitLab Pages](https://jensknipper.de/blog/gitlab-ci-pages-asciidoc-documentation-as-code/)
+  by Jens Knipper on his personal blog.
+* [Afraid to Git](https://dammit.nl/afraid-to-git.html):
+  a rant by Michiel Scholten about why because of misbehaving AI scrapers
+  he is not putting his Gitea instance (his Git server) on the Internet.
+* [Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility](https://lwn.net/Articles/1014979/)
+  by Joe Brockmeier on LWN\.net.
+
+
 __Easy watching__
--->
+
+* [Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCr_gb8rdEI)
+  video interview (YouTube, 41:49).
+
 
 __Git tools and sites__
 
+* [Devlands](https://devlands.com/) is the game that creates immersive experience
+  to help learning Git.  Created by Jacob Stopak, the author of [Git-Sim](https://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-sim)
+  tool to visualize Git commands directly in your own repo, which was first mentioned
+  in [Git Rev News Edition #95](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2023/01/31/edition-95/).
+  Described in [I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain](https://initialcommit.com/blog/im-making-a-git-game)
+  article on Initial Commit Blog.
+* [Git Game Show](https://justinpaulson.github.io/git_game_show/) is a text interface app
+  that transforms your project's Git commit history into a live, multiplayer trivia game.
+  One user hosts a session, other players join remotely, and the system rotates
+  through rounds of different question-based "mini-games," awarding points
+  and declaring a final winner.
+* [dgit](https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dgit/dgit.1.en.html) is a tool that
+  allows you to treat the Debian archive as if it were a git repository.
+  Conversely, it allows Debian to publish the source of its packages as git branches,
+  in a format which is directly useable by ordinary people.
+    * Note that GitHub's Spokes system that stores multiple distributed copies
+	  of Git repositories was once called DGit.  See [Stretching Spokes](https://github.blog/engineering/infrastructure/stretching-spokes/)
+	  article by Michael Haggerty on GitHub Blog mentioned in
+	  [Git Rev News Edition #14](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/04/20/edition-14/).
+* [Mega](https://github.com/web3infra-foundation/mega)
+  is an unofficial open source implementation of Google Piper (a proprietary, massive,
+  centralized version control system that Google uses internally to manage their vast codebase).
+  It is a monorepo & monolithic codebase management system that supports Git. 
+  More information can be found in [Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository](https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext).
+  Written in Rust and TypeScript.
+* [Oshiro's git](https://github.com/lucasoshiro/oshit): VCS written in Haskell
+  that tries to be compatible with git.  This is not safe to use,
+  and is only meant for learning how git works and how hard it is.
+* [codeowner-filter](https://kertal.github.io/codeowner-filter/) is a simple web tool
+  that solves the problem of finding just the files your team owns based
+  on the contents of [CODEOWNERS](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-code-owners) file.
+  It will generate search filters for VSCode, scope configration for IDEA IDEs, and a list.
+* [CodeOwners Filter](https://github.com/akowalska622/codeowners-filter) is a Visual Studio Code extension
+  that gives you a visual representation of the CODEOWNERS file
+  and helps you generate glob include patterns for any code owner. 
+* [rebuilderd](https://github.com/kpcyrd/rebuilderd)
+  is a tool that monitors the package repository
+  of a Linux distribution and uses rebuilder backends
+  like archlinux-repro to verify the provided binary packages
+  can be reproduced from the given source code.
+  Written in Rust, under GPL license.
+* [reproduce](https://github.com/vltpkg/reproduce) is an open-source tool
+  designed to independently verify whether a published npm package
+  can be faithfully rebuilt from its declared source.
+  It is described in [Reproducibility vs. Provenance: Trusting the JavaScript Supply Chain](https://blog.vlt.sh/blog/reproducibility)
+  blog post by Darcy Clarke.
+* [Graft](https://graft.rs/) is an open-source transactional storage engine
+  designed for efficient data synchronization at the edge.
+  It is described in [Stop syncing everything](https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-syncing-everything/)
+  article by Carl Sverre, his [Storing small things in big places](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsD8uSAi0s1)
+  Vancouver Systems Talk (video on YouTube, 55:04), and
+  [Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJurdmhPLH411)
+  High Performance SQLite Talk (video on YouTube, 1:10:19).
+  Written in Rust.
+
 
 ## Releases