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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>,
	 Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	 Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] builtin/history: unuse the commit buffer after use
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:20:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv78df57r.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910160254.GB251185@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:02:54 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm not suggesting a v3 with this wording, as I think there are
> diminishing returns to polishing commit messages forever. Mostly just
> food for thought for future patches. :)

I obviously agree.  I wonder what my recent favorite prompt given to
a nearby LLM, "State the same thing with 1/N number of words"
followed by the proposed commit log message that I found too long to
read, would produce for the v3 message.

I'd use N=8~10 for this one ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-10 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-14 14:15 [PATCH] builtin/history: unuse the commit buffer after use Kaartic Sivaraam
2026-06-15  9:48 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-15 17:29   ` Jeff King
2026-06-16  5:45     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-06-30  3:45     ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2026-06-30  5:26       ` Jeff King
2026-06-30  3:43   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2026-06-30  5:38     ` Jeff King
2026-06-30  5:50       ` Jeff King
2026-06-30  6:44         ` Jeff King
2026-09-10 11:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2026-09-10 13:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-10 15:00     ` [PATCH v3] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2026-09-10 16:02       ` Jeff King
2026-09-10 16:20         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-09-10 16:37         ` Kaartic Sivaraam

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