From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2024, #03; Fri, 5)
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 09:55:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmsq6l9c3.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de15fc1ca9b5abe694196f4d468d4226@manjaro.org> (Dragan Simic's message of "Sat, 06 Apr 2024 10:37:09 +0200")
Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> writes:
> Ah, sorry, I wasn't precise enough, please let me explain. When
> I wrote "prefix", I had its use by humans in mind, e.g. for searching
> the "what's cooking" emails by hand, to see the statuses of one's
> patches. I mean, that's what I do -- by searching for "ds/", I can
> easily find the statuses of my patches in "what's cooking" emails.
> Does that make sense?
Yes, and the fan-out reduces the search space by a lot, but like the
birthday paradox, given sufficiently large number of people, the
chances of two people falling into the same shard increases. It of
course does not help that the first and the last capital letters in
people's names are not evenly distributed ;-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-06 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-05 19:13 What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2024, #03; Fri, 5) Junio C Hamano
2024-04-05 20:06 ` Jeff King
2024-04-06 1:11 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-06 5:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-06 8:37 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-06 16:55 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-04-06 17:01 ` Dragan Simic
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