Re: Parallel checkout (Was Re: 0 bot for Git)

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On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:04:49AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
>>
>> There is a draft of an article about the first part of the Contributor
>> Summit in the draft of the next Git Rev News edition:
>>
>> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-14.md
>
> Thanks. I read the sentence "This made people mention potential
> problems with parallelizing git checkout" and wondered what these
> problems were.

It may have been Michael or Peff (CC'ed) saying that it could break
some builds as the timestamps on the files might not always be ordered
in the same way.

Now perhaps parallel checkout could be activated only if a config
option was set. (Yeah, I know it looks like I am very often asking for
config options.)

> And because it's easier to think while you test
> something, to flesh out your thoughts, I wrote the below patch, which
> does parallel checkout with multiple worker processes.

Thanks for your work on this. It is very interesting indeed.
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