From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 12:58:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe-doc: clarify default length of abbreviation
Message-ID: <xmqqo8da6dk4.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <8cad4c4b-a923-43f2-9bb7-6ce418cfb0fc@www.fastmail.com>

Anders Höckersten <anders@hockersten.se> writes:

> The explanation was mostly copied from the 2.11.0 release notes,
> but mentioning the birtday paradox is unnecessary. I suggest
> changing this sentence to: "The length of the abbreviation scales
> as the repository grows using the approximate number of objects in
> the repository, and by default the minimum length is 7."

Heh.  In my priate review, I said that I very much liked the way the
new description was phrased with "a bit of math around the birthday
paradox".  Now I know why I liked that phrasing---it turns out to be
my own ;-)

I don't mind with or without mention of the birthday math.  Thanks
for working on this.