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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] read-cache.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:44:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk1m02op2.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BD8nUfJoNjWCnaYgUn5+LaunOx74AgwPf5okG0OhwEXw@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:21:30 +0100")

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

>> This shouldn't be needed either.  My assumption was that if someone
>> explicitly asked for multiple threads we're better off failing than
>> silently ignoring their request.  The default/automatic setting will
>> detect the number of cpus and behave correctly.
>
> No. I can have ~/.gitconfig shared between different machines. One
> with multithread support and one without. I should not have to fall
> back to conditional includes in order to use the same config file on
> the machine without multithread.

Our attitude has been to fail unsatisfyable requests from the
command line loudly to let the users' know, and tolerate having
elements from the future versions of Git in the configuration file
by ignoring them or tweaking them (silently or with a warning).

So this hunk is in line with the current practice, and we should
keep it this way.  It is a separate discussion if we want to rethink
that whole attitude, that discussion may be worth having, and I
think that discussion is wider than this single topic.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-30  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-27  7:09 [PATCH 00/10] Reduce #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:09 ` [PATCH 01/10] thread-utils: macros to unconditionally compile pthreads API Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:31   ` Jeff King
2018-10-27  7:40     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-27  8:15       ` Jeff King
2018-10-27 14:43         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-27  7:09 ` [PATCH 02/10] index-pack: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:34   ` Jeff King
2018-10-27  7:09 ` [PATCH 03/10] name-hash.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:09 ` [PATCH 04/10] attr.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:09 ` [PATCH 05/10] send-pack.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:39   ` Jeff King
2018-10-27  7:09 ` [PATCH 06/10] grep: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:44   ` Jeff King
2018-10-29  2:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-29 14:25       ` Jeff King
2018-10-29 16:01         ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-29 16:20           ` Jeff King
2018-10-30  1:27             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-27  7:10 ` [PATCH 07/10] preload-index.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-29 16:52   ` Ben Peart
2018-10-27  7:10 ` [PATCH 08/10] pack-objects: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:10 ` [PATCH 09/10] read-cache.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-29 17:05   ` Ben Peart
2018-10-29 17:21     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-29 17:58       ` Ben Peart
2018-10-30  1:44       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-10-27  7:10 ` [PATCH 10/10] Clean up pthread_create() error handling Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27  7:24 ` [PATCH 00/10] Reduce #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Jeff King
2018-10-27  8:13 ` Jeff King
2018-10-27 17:07   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-27 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:29   ` [PATCH v2 01/10] thread-utils: macros to unconditionally compile pthreads API Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 02/10] index-pack: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 03/10] name-hash.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 04/10] attr.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 05/10] grep: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 06/10] preload-index.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-29 17:21     ` Ben Peart
2018-10-29 17:26       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-10-29 18:05         ` Ben Peart
2018-10-29 20:11           ` Jeff King
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 07/10] pack-objects: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 08/10] read-cache.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-29 14:30     ` Jeff King
2018-10-29 17:07       ` Ben Peart
2018-10-29 17:23       ` Ben Peart
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 09/10] Clean up pthread_create() error handling Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-27 17:30   ` [PATCH v2 10/10] read-cache.c: initialize copy_len to shut up gcc 8 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-10-29 14:31     ` Jeff King
2018-11-03  8:48   ` [PATCH v3 00/14] Reduce #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 01/14] thread-utils: macros to unconditionally compile pthreads API Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 02/14] run-command.h: include thread-utils.h instead of pthread.h Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 03/14] send-pack.c: move async's #ifdef NO_PTHREADS back to run-command.c Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 04/14] index-pack: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 05/14] name-hash.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 06/14] attr.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 07/14] grep: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 08/14] grep: clean up num_threads handling Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 09/14] preload-index.c: remove #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 10/14] pack-objects: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 11/14] read-cache.c: " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 12/14] read-cache.c: reduce branching based on HAVE_THREADS Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 13/14] read-cache.c: initialize copy_len to shut up gcc 8 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-03  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 14/14] Clean up pthread_create() error handling Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2018-11-06  4:51     ` [PATCH v3 00/14] Reduce #ifdef NO_PTHREADS Junio C Hamano

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