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Re: [PATCH] index-pack: speed up promisor link recording

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Aug 2, 2026, 22:52 UTC
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
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> I understand that the SubmittingPatches documentation is a bit long, but
> I do suggest giving it at least a glance so you know what to expect.  I
> think reading this sort of contributing documentation is more important
> than ever since, in the era of LLMs, projects tend to have strong
> opinions on what is and is not acceptable, not only just in terms of LLM
> usage, but in how code and documentation are to be written and
> formatted.
Amen.

Since we seem to be drawn into the AI policy discussion, are there things that we should consider borrowing from policies battle-tested by other projects? I kind of like what LLVM has as "extractive contributions are rejected (whether it is AI or not AI)", as we are severely review-bandwidth limited these days.

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