From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:07:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] respect binary attribute in grep
Message-ID: <20120202110719.GA29870@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87vcnp5wkg.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:00:47PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> My original plan was to make use_threads git-global, instead of
> grep-global (and shift responsibility to the subsystems instead of their
> users), but that's just me and the patches aren't ready yet.

Yeah, having just dug into the threading code in grep a bit, I agree
that would be a saner approach. The locking is all bolted-on, so you end
up with these weird contracts between code, like the low-level grep code
asking anybody who might be multi-threading it to initialize the mutexes
to cover access to a totally different subsystem. I'd much rather each
subsystem just take care of itself.

-Peff