Cool discovery but the article could have been about 1/10 as long and still communicated effectively. At least they didn't post it as a video, so it was easy to skim to the important details.
"We found that a large portion of the 48 hours taken to backup our rails respository was due to a function in `git bundle create` that checks for duplicate references entered as command line arguments. The check contained a nested for loop ( O(N2) ), which we replaced with a map data structure in an upstream fix to Git. The patch was accepted, but we also backported fix without waiting for the next Git version. With this change, backup time dropped to 41 minutes."
Generously, this writing style is supposed to show the business value of teams and individuals, for promotions or other recognition. But yeah, it can be frustrating to read this style.
ChatGPT has ruined bullet points for the rest of us…
No offense but writing this blog post couldn’t take more than a few minutes, why spoil it with LLM? Shoot, use one to check grammar and recommend edits even.
1.https://github.com/git/git/commit/bb74c0abbc31da35be52999569...