[U-Boot] [PATCH 06/13] buildman: Tidy up the 'cloning' message

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Sep 23 20:42:01 CEST 2016


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:14:01PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On 19 September 2016 at 13:14, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 04:48:31PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> >
> >> On a machine with a lot of CPUs this prints a lot of useless lines of the
> >> form:
> >>
> >>    Cloning repo for thread <n>
> >>
> >> Adjust the output so that these all appear on one line, and disappear when
> >> the cloning is complete.
> >>
> >> Note: This cloning is actually unnecessary and very wasteful on disk space
> >> (about 3.5GB each time). It would be better to create symlinks.
> >
> > When do we actually need to clone?  Or why, even?
> 
> Each thread can check out a different commit. I think it might be
> possible to put the checkout in a separate thread so it can avoid
> contention. I'm not quite sure...

Ah, ok.  So we have a few places under tools/ that should be doing 'git
clone --local', at first glance.

-- 
Tom
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