From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:58:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: count the distance correctly when commit dates are skewed
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:
>
> 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