Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:54:51PM -0800, Stefan Zager wrote:

To this end, I'd like to start submitting patches that make the code
base generally more thread-safe and thread-friendly.  Right after this
email, I'm going to send the first such patch, which makes the global
list of pack files (packed_git) internal to sha1_file.c.

I'm definitely interested in this if it also works on POSIX systems.  At
work, we have a 7.6 GiB repo (packed)[0], so while performance is not
bad, I certainly wouldn't object if it were better.

[0] Using du -sh.  For comparison, the Linux kernel repo is 1.4 GiB.

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