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Re: [PATCH] Enable parallelism in git submodule update.

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2012, 21:59 UTC
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Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:
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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 04:25:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> Of course, any set of rules have exceptions ;-) There are a few
>> things to which we say "Even though it is not in POSIX, everybody
>> who matters supports it, and without taking advantage of it, what we
>> want to achieve will become too cumbersome to express".
>
> I was about to write that since this is limited to a given --jobs
> options the majority platforms should be enough as a start and others
> could add a parallelism mechanism later. Its only a matter of efficiency
> and not features.

As long as "git submodule --jobs 9" on a platform without GNU enhanced xargs does not error out and gracefully degrade to non parallel execution, I do not have any problem with it. As posted, the patch has not yet achieved that doneness yet.

Previous: Heiko Voigt
Message 12 of 12 in “Enable parallelism in git submodule update.”
  1. Enable parallelism in git submodule update.Stefan Zager, Jul 27, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2012
  3. Heiko VoigtJul 28, 2012
  4. cleanup argument passing in submodule status commandHeiko Voigt, Jul 28, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2012
  6. Jens LehmannJul 29, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2012
  8. Jens LehmannJul 29, 2012
  9. Jens LehmannNov 3, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2012
  11. Heiko VoigtJul 28, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2012

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