Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html