From: Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:28:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git pack/unpack over bittorrent - works!
Message-ID: <FyEIt68YHr11lsX_CGcHmYfITTgX-iSs9tVNIBMG7FQ_WhGc4ttvXw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <20100902192910.GJ32601@spearce.org>

On 09/02/2010 02:29 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  * based on what you kindly mentioned about "git repack -f", would a
>> (well-written!) patch to git pack-objects to add a
>> "--single-thread-only" option be acceptable?
> 
> Probably not.  I can't think of a good reason to limit the number
> of threads that get used.  We already have pack.threads as a
> configuration variable to support controlling this for the system,
> but that's about the only thing that really makes sense.

I think pack-objects already has a --threads option allowing to
specify the number of threads to use.

   --threads=1

should do it.

-Brandon