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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] builtin-merge: avoid run_command_v_opt() for recursive
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:47:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhc9rxuc4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ea5b9868df7c17c55cd091b4408f08a310bed641.1218374062.git.vmiklos@frugalware.org

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> The try_merge_strategy() function always ran the strategy in a separate
> process, though this is not always necessary. The recursive strategy can
> be called without a fork(). This patch adds a check, and calls recursive
> in the same process without wasting resources.

Yes, it saves a fork, but is this really worth it in the bigger picture?

Doesn't the current code structure have benefit of allowing git-merge
itself do necessary clean-up action when merge-recursive calls any of the
die() it has in many places?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-10 13:20 [PATCH 0/2] Avoid run_command() for recursive in builtin-merge Miklos Vajna
2008-08-10 13:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] merge-recursive: prepare merge_recursive() to be called from builtins Miklos Vajna
2008-08-10 13:20   ` [PATCH 2/2] builtin-merge: avoid run_command_v_opt() for recursive Miklos Vajna
2008-08-11 18:47     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-08-11 19:07       ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-11 20:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-11 20:45           ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-11 20:48             ` [PATCH] Add a new test to ensure merging a submodule is handled properly Miklos Vajna
2008-08-11 15:13   ` [PATCH 1/2] merge-recursive: prepare merge_recursive() to be called from builtins Stephan Beyer
2008-08-11 16:46     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-11 19:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-11 20:46       ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-11 15:03 ` [PATCH] builtin-revert.c: Make use of merge_recursive() Stephan Beyer
2008-08-11 15:47   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11 19:01     ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-11 19:09       ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-11 21:44         ` [PATCH] builtin-revert: " Stephan Beyer
2008-08-11 21:46           ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-11 22:33             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-11 23:27           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-11 23:47             ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-11 23:52               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-12 16:45             ` [PATCH] Split out merge_recursive() to merge-recursive.c Miklos Vajna
2008-08-12 17:56               ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-12 21:40                 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-12 20:13               ` [PATCH (1b)] merge-recursive.c: Add more generic merge_recursive_generic() Stephan Beyer
2008-08-12 20:14                 ` [PATCH (2)] Make builtin-revert.c use merge_recursive_generic() Stephan Beyer
2008-08-12 21:44                 ` [PATCH (1b)] merge-recursive.c: Add more generic merge_recursive_generic() Miklos Vajna
2008-08-13 17:26                   ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-13 20:13                     ` Miklos Vajna
2008-08-13  3:17                 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-13 17:29                   ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-13 17:54                     ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-13 19:55                       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-13 20:05                         ` Stephan Beyer
2008-08-13 20:36                         ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-08-13 21:45                           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-14  3:17               ` [PATCH] Split out merge_recursive() to merge-recursive.c Junio C Hamano

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