Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2024, #03; Fri, 5)
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- Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
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- Apr 6, 2024, 17:01 UTC
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On 2024-04-06 18:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 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 ;-).
Exactly. Actually, such collisions/overlaps are a good problem to have, because it means that the number of contributors is large enough to cause such issues. :)