Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Sep 22 2022, Calvin Wan wrote: > >> +status.parallelSubmodules:: >> + When linkgit:git-status[1] is run in a superproject with >> + submodules, a status subprocess is spawned for every submodule. >> + This option specifies the number of submodule status subprocesses >> + to run in parallel. If unset, it defaults to 1. > > Why do we default to 1, instead of e.g. grep.threads defaulting to the > "cores available"? I would imagine we would want to be able to say: - I do not trust the parallel mode yet, just use the single process method that we have always been using. - I do not know how many cores I have, just use a reasonable default parallelism. - I want to use N processes because I know better than auto-scaling based on num_cpus. And the value of 1 would be a reasonable way to express the first one.
