From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: fast-import: multiple processes possible? Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:28:17 -0800 Message-ID: References: <8739qmzaha.fsf@matica.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ian Zimmerman X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 27 23:32:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PMTJr-0002xj-Ai for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:32:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753566Ab0K0W2i convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:28:38 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:62042 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753345Ab0K0W2i convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:28:38 -0500 Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so302704iwn.19 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:28:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.16.131 with SMTP id o3mr3433562iba.38.1290896917350; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:28:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.154.5 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:28:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8739qmzaha.fsf@matica.localdomain> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Hi, I have a user question, I hope that's ok. =A0Actually, the end go= al is > development of a fast-import frontend. =A0The fast-import manpage say= s > that it is safe to run "any other" git operation concurrently with > fast-import. =A0It doesn't say if it is possible and safe to run anot= her > 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. --=20 Shawn.