Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] [RFC] Speeding up checkout (and merge, rebase, etc)

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2018, 21:02 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYkoK6R83fQXeXMunzxXYLxFiO8z9+cDY8Ku4fsR+9-TQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180718204458.20936-1-benpeart@microsoft.com>

> don�t

The encoding seems to be broken somehow (also on) https://public-inbox.org/git/20180718204458.20936-1-benpeart@microsoft.com/

> When I brought up this idea with some other git contributors they mentioned
> that multi threading unpack_trees() had been discussed a few years ago on

https://public-inbox.org/git/CACsJy8A0KUyxK_2NAMh+da9yithZM5d68rhqEVZe3NcMxinAjA@mail.gmail.com/ https://public-inbox.org/git/20160415095139.GA3985@lanh/

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> the list but that the idea was discarded.  They couldn�t remember exactly
> why it was discarded and none of us have been able to find the email threads
> from that earlier discussion. As a result, I decided to write up this RFC
> and see if the greater git community has ideas, suggestions, or more
> background/history on whether this is a reasonable path to pursue or if
> there are other/better ideas on how to speed up checkout especially on large
> repos.

If you want more than a bare bones threaded queue, see https://public-inbox.org/git/1440724495-708-5-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com/ for inspiration.

Stefan