From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 17:01:58 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2024, #03; Fri, 5)
Message-ID: <ceddded683e20b87236e1d4880786881@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmsq6l9c3.fsf@gitster.g>

On 2024-04-06 18:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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. :)