From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fast-import: multiple processes possible?
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:28:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=ZH+GNZyPSbafuDEE5nsFtezoePK+gFtM6HrEX@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739qmzaha.fsf@matica.localdomain>
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a user question, I hope that's ok. Actually, the end goal is
> development of a fast-import frontend. The fast-import manpage says
> that it is safe to run "any other" git operation concurrently with
> fast-import. It doesn't say if it is possible and safe to run another
> copy of fast-import itself.
Yes, you can.
The only problem is, each fast-import cannot see the objects created
by the other concurrent fast-imports until they either terminate, or
execute "checkpoint" command received from the frontend.
--
Shawn.
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2010-11-27 22:07 fast-import: multiple processes possible? Ian Zimmerman
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