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Re: [PATCH] technical/partial-clone: narrow the one-at-a-time fetch limitation

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Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2026, 23:03 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la> wrote:
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> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
> > Maybe ask your LLM to make this cover letter more pithy?  It's unfair
> > to request humans to read voluminous and likely irrelevant LLM output
>
> Sorry about the wall of text under the scissors. I do write these through
> a model since English is not my first language and it reads better that
> way, but the length was my own doing. The model did not run off, I piled
> the context in on purpose. Won't do it again, I'll keep the notes short.

I may have come across a bit too abrupt; sorry about that. The commit message and actual wording changes all looked good, and I appreciate you contributing those changes, I just figured the feedback on the cover letter would let you adjust and make even better contributions going forward.

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  1. technical/partial-clone: narrow the one-at-a-time fetch limitationAleksei Sviridkin, Sep 3, 2026
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