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Wed, 4 Feb 2026 10:28:39 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Justin Tobler , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] builtin/repo: find tree with most entries In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Wed, 4 Feb 2026 09:28:31 +0100") References: <20260203221758.1164434-1-jltobler@gmail.com> <20260203221758.1164434-6-jltobler@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:28:38 -0800 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 Patrick Steinhardt writes: > From my point of view that would be the cherry on top of the new tool :) > I'd personally still like to learn about maximum values in the table, as > I've found that info to be useful with some customer incidents in the > past. It's not giving you a trend, but it immediately gives you some > good signal that the repo shape might be weird if you have commits with > hundreds of parents. > > So maybe this is another step we can do in a subsequent patch series? Oh, I didn't mean to say "the maximum alone is not interesting enough for me to bother, come back with histograms." If you already have a good feel for normal range/distribution already, then one data point at the extreme is a sign enough for you to notice when there is something fishy going on. Thanks.