From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Norton <inorton@gmail.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Are concurrent git operations on the same repo safe?
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 09:30:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kb+SB3q720Q_QbpPTLsY-gfsYHGdSvK2TGOtRXwLMQyOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Bhu6RvedKgOx8uExrJuo0-b66JvnZA9d9v4Uk6mSwPQQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:16 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
"git submodule update" has the network part parallelized,
but not the local part IIRC. (That is cloning/fetching submodules
can be done with "-j <n>", but the local checkout is still serial for
UX purposes, i.e. it wants to stop at the first conflict and only
have one conflict at a time)
Which odd side effects do you see?
I'd be curious to see if that is a bug in the code or documentation.
Thanks,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-06 17:31 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
2018-02-06 17:30 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2018-02-06 20:10 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-02-06 20:26 ` Ian Norton
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