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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-10-19 13:34:03 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2018-10-19 13:34:03 +0900
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Merge branch 'bp/read-cache-parallel'
A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows the file to be read in parallel. * bp/read-cache-parallel: read-cache: load cache entries on worker threads ieot: add Index Entry Offset Table (IEOT) extension read-cache: load cache extensions on a worker thread config: add new index.threads config setting eoie: add End of Index Entry (EOIE) extension read-cache: clean up casting and byte decoding read-cache.c: optimize reading index format v4
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@@ -338,6 +338,11 @@ for the index version specified. Can be set to any valid version
GIT_TEST_PRELOAD_INDEX=<boolean> exercises the preload-index code path
by overriding the minimum number of cache entries required per thread.
+GIT_TEST_INDEX_THREADS=<n> enables exercising the multi-threaded loading
+of the index for the whole test suite by bypassing the default number of
+cache entries and thread minimums. Setting this to 1 will make the
+index loading single threaded.
+
Naming Tests
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