On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Stefan Zager <szager@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For my test, I first run 'git clone -n <repo>', and then measure the > running time of 'git checkout --force HEAD'. On linux, the checkout > command runs in 0:12; on Windows, it's about 3:30. try git read-tree HEAD git ls-files | xargs -P=XXX -n=YYYY git checkout-index That should give you a rough idea how much gain (or loss) by parallelization -- Duy -- 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