From: Stefan Beller Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:02:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] [RFC] Speeding up checkout (and merge, rebase, etc) Message-ID: 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/ > 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