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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-11-22 02:16:02 -0600 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-11-24 15:01:24 -0800 |
| commit | dc01f59d21fca9ade97f1433ca4cee17b5ce59a7 (patch) | |
| tree | d49d342675bc3ffcfccee23cbdba01e78695377f /Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | |
| parent | 03276d94bcdb7d463a029936933898948c0669ac (diff) | |
| download | git-dc01f59d21fca9ade97f1433ca4cee17b5ce59a7.tar.gz | |
fast-import: treat SIGUSR1 as a request to access objects early
It can be tedious to wait for a multi-million-revision import.
Unfortunately it is hard to spy on the import because fast-import
works by continuously streaming out objects, without updating the pack
index or refs until a checkpoint command or the end of the stream.
So allow the impatient operator to request checkpoints by sending a
signal, like so:
killall -USR1 git-fast-import
When receiving such a signal, fast-import would schedule a checkpoint
to take place after the current top-level command (usually a "commit"
or "blob" request) finishes.
Caveats: just like ordinary checkpoint commands, such requests slow
down the import. Switching to a new pack at a suboptimal moment is
also likely to result in a less dense initial collection of packs.
That's the price.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 5d0c245e38..9667e9aebc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -1233,6 +1233,13 @@ and lazy loading of subtrees, allows fast-import to efficiently import projects with 2,000+ branches and 45,114+ files in a very limited memory footprint (less than 2.7 MiB per active branch). +Signals +------- +Sending *SIGUSR1* to the 'git fast-import' process ends the current +packfile early, simulating a `checkpoint` command. The impatient +operator can use this facility to peek at the objects and refs from an +import in progress, at the cost of some added running time and worse +compression. Author ------ |