Re: [PATCH v4 2/9] hook: parse the hook.jobs config

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Mar 24, 2026, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <acJUXq7cMKG6KExe@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <20260320135311.331463-3-adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 03:53:04PM +0200, Adrian Ratiu wrote:

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> diff --git a/Documentation/config/hook.adoc b/Documentation/config/hook.adoc
> index 9e78f26439..b7847f9338 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/hook.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/config/hook.adoc
> @@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ hook.<friendly-name>.enabled::
>  	configuration. This is particularly useful when a hook is defined
>  	in a system or global config file and needs to be disabled for a
>  	specific repository. See linkgit:git-hook[1].
> +
> +hook.jobs::
> +	Specifies how many hooks can be run simultaneously during parallelized
> +	hook execution. If unspecified, defaults to 1 (serial execution).

I was wondering whether we also want to allow -1 as a way to say "use as many jobs as I have CPU cores". We also do this in some other places.

Totally fine to ignore this for now though, we can still add it at a later point in time once somebody complains.

Patrick