From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
To: gitster@pobox.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, e@80x24.org,
chriscool@tuxfamily.org, jonathantanmy@google.com, tboegi@web.de,
bwilliams.eng@gmail.com, jeffhost@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] fetch: Make --jobs control submodules and remotes
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:06:36 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mhng-f7e42958-08d9-4bbc-a745-4e40a67cb6f2@palmer-si-x1e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7e7g7mky.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:00:13 PDT (-0700), gitster@pobox.com wrote:
> Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> writes:
>
>> The existing --jobs argument was defined to control the number of jobs
>> used for submodule fetching, but it makes more sense to have this
>> argument control the number of jobs to be used when fetching from
>> multiple remotes as well.
>>
>> This patch simply changes the --jobs argument parsing code to set both
>> max_children_for_{submodules,fetch}, as well as noting this new behavior
>> in the documentation.
>
> That's a sensible, if overly careful, transition plan. This patch
> cannot be queued together with the other four, though, for the plan
> to be practical. It probably needs to come a few releases after the
> other four hits a release.
>
> A less involved and much more careless transition plan may be to
> just declare that "--jobs that only controls submodule fetches is a
> bug and it must also affect how fetches from multiple remote
> repositories are done" and come directly to this step, without
> necessarily introducing options that control them independently.
>
> I have a suspicion that we can afford to go the careless route for
> this particular one, if we wanted to, as not may people would care
> about controlling these independently.
This was brought up as part of the v1, and the cover letter lays out a plan to
do so. I'm happy to re-spin the patch set to just have --jobs control
everything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-13 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-12 21:34 [PATCH v2 0/5] fetch: Extend --jobs to multiple remotes Palmer Dabbelt
2019-08-12 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] fetch: Rename max_children to max_children_for_submodules Palmer Dabbelt
2019-08-12 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] fetch: Add the "--fetch-jobs" option Palmer Dabbelt
2019-08-13 14:44 ` Eric Wong
2019-08-12 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] fetch: Add the fetch.jobs config key Palmer Dabbelt
2019-08-12 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] fetch: Add the --submodule-fetch-jobs option Palmer Dabbelt
2019-08-12 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] fetch: Make --jobs control submodules and remotes Palmer Dabbelt
2019-08-13 20:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-13 22:06 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-08-13 22:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-13 22:06 ` Palmer Dabbelt [this message]
2019-08-14 8:32 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-14 15:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-14 18:33 ` Palmer Dabbelt
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