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Mon, 2 Nov 2026 09:33:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 4e91b270 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 2 Nov 2026 14:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 15:33:33 +0100 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Harald Nordgren Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, "D. Ben Knoble" , GGG Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] object-name: explain why ~N fails in a shallow clone Message-ID: References: <4836126b-e630-45cd-8757-861133ec233c@app.fastmail.com> X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Mon, Nov 02, 2026 at 03:10:56PM +0100, Harald Nordgren wrote: > > I’m not much of a C programmer. > > I'm quite taken aback by this. > > Is the Git code so sacred that even the reviewers are not in a > position to review? :D There are other ways in which people can contribute, e.g. by contributing documentation. Not everyone contributing to Git is a developer -- I'd argue we could in fact use way more non-developer contributions. Patrick