From: Ramsay Jones Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:50:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] Expose the submodule parallelism to the user Message-ID: <5632B0E1.8040309@ramsayjones.plus.com> In-Reply-To: On 29/10/15 15:51, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Ramsay Jones > wrote: > >> Hmm, is there a way to _not_ fetch in parallel (override the >> config) from the command line for a given command? >> >> ATB, >> Ramsay Jones > > git config submodule.jobs 42 > git --jobs 1 # should run just one task, despite having 42 configured Heh, yes ... I didn't pose the question quite right ... > > It does use the parallel processing machinery though, but with a maximum of > one subcommand being spawned. Is that what you're asking? ... but, despite that, you correctly inferred what I was really asking about! :) I was just wondering what overhead the parallel processing machinery adds to the original 'non-parallel' code path (for the j=1 case). I suspect the answer is 'not much', but that's just a guess. Have you measured it? What happens if there is only a single submodule to fetch? ATB, Ramsay Jones