Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe
It shouldn't be hard for us to run some tests with this patch applied.
Will report back in a day or two.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner@chromium.org> wrote:
>> ...
>>> 2) Use TLS as you suggest and have one fd per pack thread. Probably
>>> the most complicated code change (at least for me, being a first-time
>>> contributor)
>>
>> It's not so complicated. I suggested a patch [1] before (surprise!).
>> ...
>> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/196042
>
> That message is at the tail end of the discussion. I wonder why
> nothing came out of it back then.
>
> While I do not see anything glaringly wrong with the change from a
> quick glance over it, it would be nice to hear how well it performs
> on their platform from Windows folks.
>
> Thanks.