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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-01-12 15:16:55 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-01-12 15:16:55 -0800
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tree0d6baf9bff5c5a391042ab44801d144a76da43d3 /Documentation
parent72d25911eb6adc450aabb741cb911bf6aa89a322 (diff)
parent89f09dd34e613394c749f69ddd74adc90cb034ca (diff)
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Merge branch 'vl/grep-configurable-threads'
"git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files. * vl/grep-configurable-threads: grep: add --threads=<num> option and grep.threads configuration grep: slight refactoring to the code that disables threading grep: allow threading even on a single-core machine
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-grep.txt9
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index f61788668e..beb18da143 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1450,6 +1450,10 @@ grep.extendedRegexp::
option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
other than 'default'.
+grep.threads::
+ Number of grep worker threads to use.
+ See `grep.threads` in linkgit:git-grep[1] for more information.
+
gpg.program::
Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when
making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 4a44d6da13..35aada1447 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[--break] [--heading] [-p | --show-function]
[-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>]
[-W | --function-context]
+ [--threads <num>]
[-f <file>] [-e] <pattern>
[--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...]
[ [--[no-]exclude-standard] [--cached | --no-index | --untracked] | <tree>...]
@@ -53,6 +54,10 @@ grep.extendedRegexp::
option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
other than 'default'.
+grep.threads::
+ Number of grep worker threads to use. If unset (or set to 0),
+ 8 threads are used by default (for now).
+
grep.fullName::
If set to true, enable '--full-name' option by default.
@@ -227,6 +232,10 @@ OPTIONS
effectively showing the whole function in which the match was
found.
+--threads <num>::
+ Number of grep worker threads to use.
+ See `grep.threads` in 'CONFIGURATION' for more information.
+
-f <file>::
Read patterns from <file>, one per line.