Re: [PATCH 0/3] Improve abbreviation disambiguation

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Derrick Stolee wrote:

> This is my first patch submission, and I look forward to your feedback.

Thanks for writing this.  Looks exciting.

[...]
> When displaying object ids, we frequently want to see an abbreviation
[etc]
> Note that performance improves in all cases, but the performance gain
> is larger when there are multiple, large pack-files. This gain comes
> from the lack of in-memory caching of index files that have already been
> inspected.

Can this (especially the performance information) go in the commit
message for one of the patches?

Otherwise it is harder for people to track down when looking at these
changes later with "git log".  In the worst case, if the mailing list
archive is down, then people would not have access to this information
at all.  For that reason, I try (though I often fail!) to restrict
cover letters to giving hints at e.g. what changed since the patch
series last visited the list, and to make the commit messages in the
patches themselves as self-contained as possible.

That aside, looking forward to reading the patches themselves in more
detail.  Thanks for working on this.

Sincerely,
Jonathan