Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #01; Fri, 4)

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Apr 7, 2014, 18:35 UTC
Message-ID: <5342EFD4.6020007@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <533FCA92.8060006@kdbg.org>

Am 05.04.2014 11:19, schrieb Johannes Sixt:

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> Am 04.04.2014 22:58, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> * sz/mingw-index-pack-threaded (2014-03-19) 1 commit
>>  - Enable index-pack threading in msysgit.
>>
>>  What is the status of this topic?  A failure report exists
>>  ($gmane/245170), and I am aware of Duy's $gmane/245034 but that was
>>  where the discussion stalled.  Is everybody waiting for everybody
>>  else to get the discussion unstuck?
> 
> I still have to cross-check Duy's patch. I'll hopefully get to it in the
> next days and report back.

The test suite passes with Duy's patch ($gmane/245034), but t5302 fails with this patch with a MinGW build. The patches touch the Cygwin configuration, but I cannot test a Cygwin build.

I have, however, lost track of what the objective of these patches is. Is the threaded version significantly faster, and these patches are worth it?

-- Hannes