Re: [PATCH] Add support for parallel HTTP transfers

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:51:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Well, I'd suggest just to hardcode a reasonable value to be a
good net citizen, and not make it configurable.  Four, perhaps?

OTOH, we may want to have an option to disable parallel from the
command line (I think -r 1 would mean that with yours).

I'd prefer to keep it configurable - for our purposes we'll be hitting
a single server from several clients and will probably want to limit
concurrent connections to something like two per client, but when doing
a fetch from a big server farm more connections would make sense.

If we really want to have the number of parallel configurable,
and -r implies recursive as you say, maybe '-j' to mimic
parallel make?

Not that I'm a huge fan of using environment variables, but it might make
sense to use one here.  That would allow the setting to work whether
git-http-fetch is run directly or via git-fetch.  GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS?

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