On 04/15/2016 06:52 PM, Jeff King wrote: > 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. > Git does not promise a particular timing or order for updating files as > it is. So if we are checking out two files "a" and "b", and your build > process depends on the timestamp between them, I think all bets are > already off.
I'm hazy on this, but I think somebody at Git Merge pointed out that parallel checkouts (within a single repository) could be tricky if multiple Git filenames are mapped to the same file due to filesystem case-insensitivity or encoding normalization. Michael -- 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
