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Re: concurrent access to multiple local git repos is error prone

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Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 4, 2018, 21:48 UTC
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Note, in my first paragraph, I should have said "If I have multiple local git repos, and I run `git status -v` on them *concurrently*"...

-alex

On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> wrote:

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> If I have multiple local git repos, and I run `git status -v` on them,
> sometimes I don't get any stdout for the command. This is highly
> reproducible.
>
> I assume that access more than 1 git repo concurrently on a local
> machine is not without errors. However this seems like a huge
> limitation or design flaw.
>
> Is my observation correct? Are there any plans to remove this limitation?
>
> My use case - I create a lot of developer tools and more than once I
> have hit this limitation...I have to create a queue with concurrency
> of 1 to run commands on git repos. It's very strange and
> counterintuitive to have to do this.
>
>
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