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Tue, 9 Jun 2026 09:23:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Tamir Duberstein , git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] describe: limit default ref iteration to tags In-Reply-To: <20260609110957.GB1509396@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 2026 07:09:57 -0400") References: <20260608-describe-tag-ref-scope-v2-1-256fd36dca32@gmail.com> <20260609110957.GB1509396@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:23:31 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jeff King writes: > So while it is perhaps reasonable to document every detail in case > somebody later wants to verify or reproduce timings, it is a little > overwhelming when trying to tell a story, the core of which is: > > In a repo with ~120k refs, ~300 of which were tags, running: > > git describe --exact-match $some_tag > > went from ~170ms to ~10ms, since we no longer needed to iterate all of > those other refs. > > That has _way_ less detail, but makes the point succinctly. > > I dunno. I am not trying to pick apart your commit in particular, but am > more interested in the broader use of AI commit messages going forward. > This kind of verbosity is quite common in the output (from my limited > experience), and I think creates more work for reviewers. Should we be > expecting contributors to make things more concise before submitting > (either manually or through prompting)? Or do people even agree that the > shorter version is preferable? I could be the only one. Count me in. You are the one who often gives us a patch with 60 lines that explains a single line change, but I haven't found these 60 lines are _overly verbose_ in the same way as AI generated log messages.