Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] refs: run copy and rename through transactions

On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 12:10 PM Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] wrote:

And as a consequence, reviewers are very likely to disengage and stop reviewing your patch series altogether, which is frustrating to everyone involved.

I also read Notes from the Git Contributor's Summit yesterday, so I
understand the problem, and I'm curious to see how things develop. I
try to respect the people reviewing code and avoid being just a "meat
proxy", but I increasingly feel like I'm becoming one myself. Month
after month, AI is doing more and more of my work, and it's simply
better at it than I am. If I had written all of this by hand, first,
it would have taken me a month, and second, I would have made far more
mistakes than AI does.

I understand that the patch is large, and I'm concerned that this
could be a barrier to code review and discourage people from reading
it and eventually merging it. After all, the more code there is, the
harder it becomes to maintain. If you don't have the time to review
it, I completely understand. In that case, I'll wait for someone else
to solve the problem, as I suspect it will come up again on the
mailing list at some point in the future.

Thanks,
Maciej