Async Commit and Merge¶

lakeFS Enterprise provides asynchronous commit and merge operations for improved scalability when working with large repositories.

Atomicity guarantees are unchanged. Async operations are still fully atomic, and the only difference is that the API returns immediately while the operation executes in the background.

Operations return immediately with a task ID, and progress can be monitored by polling the task status. The UI and lakectl use async operations by default and handle the polling automatically, so the experience stays seamless. This keeps the UI and CLI responsive during long-running operations, lets you handle large commits and merges without timeout issues, and lets you track operation progress in real time. See how merges work and async merge for the merge-side details.