On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 6:56 PM Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> wrote: > > When grepping with --recurse-submodules, the object directory of the > submodule is added to the in-memory alternates list. This makes git need > to watch out for more packfiles which might bring bad consequences for > memory and performance. > > Now that raw_object_store is a member of the struct repository, it's > possible to use the submodules' instances directly, without the need to > add its odbs to the alternates list. So let's instead pass the subrepo > down to the threads and replace function calls which use > the_repository by default for their more general counterparts. Also, > submodule cleanup must be refactored as calling repo_clear() at the end > of grep_submodules(), might free the subrepo's resources before threads > have finished working on it. To do that, let's keep track of the > workers progress and only call repo_clear() when it's safe to do so. This is incredibly exciting. Glad to see the effort that were started years ago to finally come to fruition.
