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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Ian Norton <inorton@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: Re: Are concurrent git operations on the same repo safe?
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:16:56 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Bhu6RvedKgOx8uExrJuo0-b66JvnZA9d9v4Uk6mSwPQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGUnuBHY9nQvGiROm4S_JvBWMrzieHC1FE50fJqxaauzZhH7xw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 3:16 AM, Ian Norton <inorton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm generally used to the idea that if a thing is not marked as
> "thread-safe" then it isn't thread safe, but I thought I'd ask anyway
> to be sure.
>
> Is it safe for me to do several operations with git concurrently on
> the same local repo?

Off the top of my head, object database access (e.g. things in
.git/objects), refs updates (.git/refs) and .git/index should handle
concurrent operations fine (or in the worst case you get "some
operation is ongoing, aborted" and you need to try again but not
corruption or anything else). I think we generally try to make it safe
concurrently.

> Specifically I'm trying to speed up "git
> submodule update" by doing several at the same time.  I've noticed
> some odd side effects afterwards though when trying to commit changes
> to my super project.

submodule is a hot area with lots of development lately I think,
perhaps you're seeing some bugs... CCing at least one submodule
person...

> Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, my google-foo is weak today.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ian



-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-06 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-05 20:16 Are concurrent git operations on the same repo safe? Ian Norton
2018-02-06 10:16 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2018-02-06 17:30   ` Stefan Beller
2018-02-06 20:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-02-06 20:26   ` Ian Norton

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