From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Cc: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, jens.lehmann@web.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable parallelism in git submodule update.
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:59:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfw8aut35.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120728105159.GB13370@book.hvoigt.net> (Heiko Voigt's message of "Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:52:01 +0200")
Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 04:25:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> Of course, any set of rules have exceptions ;-) There are a few
>> things to which we say "Even though it is not in POSIX, everybody
>> who matters supports it, and without taking advantage of it, what we
>> want to achieve will become too cumbersome to express".
>
> I was about to write that since this is limited to a given --jobs
> options the majority platforms should be enough as a start and others
> could add a parallelism mechanism later. Its only a matter of efficiency
> and not features.
As long as "git submodule --jobs 9" on a platform without GNU
enhanced xargs does not error out and gracefully degrade to non
parallel execution, I do not have any problem with it. As posted,
the patch has not yet achieved that doneness yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-29 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-27 18:37 [PATCH] Enable parallelism in git submodule update Stefan Zager
2012-07-27 21:38 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <CAHOQ7J_jYAe7r1q6Cg9OJb8f+79UfS=JfRk9NrS4R4a+oLM8LA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-27 23:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-28 10:52 ` Heiko Voigt
2012-07-29 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-07-28 10:22 ` Heiko Voigt
2012-07-28 12:19 ` [PATCH] cleanup argument passing in submodule status command Heiko Voigt
2012-07-29 6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-29 15:29 ` Jens Lehmann
2012-07-29 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-29 15:37 ` [PATCH] Enable parallelism in git submodule update Jens Lehmann
2012-11-03 19:07 ` Jens Lehmann
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2012-10-30 18:03 szager
2012-10-30 18:03 szager
2012-10-30 18:11 ` Stefan Zager
2012-11-02 21:49 ` Stefan Zager
2012-11-03 15:42 ` Jens Lehmann
2012-11-03 18:44 ` Phil Hord
2012-11-03 19:13 ` Jens Lehmann
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