Re: [PATCH] describe: count the distance correctly when commit dates are skewed

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Nov 3, 2026, 15:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh6X3V49_RmYadHe-9+vEML1jDp2coy2YGBzrDqyDF1rg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aumKXUS7_x0i7ZU1@pks.im>

On Mon, 2 Nov 2026 at 23:16, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:

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> An alternative that might be worth considering here is to instead make
> users opt-out with "--no-exact", and then make that discoverable by
> emitting a warning in the case where we don't have a commit graph in the
> repository.

That sounds sane - that way people who see performance issues but for some reason or another don't want to do generation numbers in the repo itself (read-only legacy repositories?) have a way out.

            Linus