Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 01:18:46PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:04:49AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote: >> >> >> >> There is a draft of an article about the first part of the Contributor >> >> Summit in the draft of the next Git Rev News edition: >> >> >> >> https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-14.md >> > >> > Thanks. I read the sentence "This made people mention potential >> > problems with parallelizing git checkout" and wondered what these >> > problems were. >> >> It may have been Michael or Peff (CC'ed) saying that it could break >> some builds as the timestamps on the files might not always be ordered >> in the same way. > > I don't think it was me. I'm also not sure how it would break a build.
Yup, "will break a build" is a crazy-talk that I'd be surprised if you said something silly like that ;-) Last time I checked, I think the accesses to attributes from the convert.c thing was one of the things that are cumbersome to make safe in multi-threaded world. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
