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diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt index 2cddf7b4b4..bfbca90f0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt @@ -21,3 +21,24 @@ checkout.guess:: Provides the default value for the `--guess` or `--no-guess` option in `git checkout` and `git switch`. See linkgit:git-switch[1] and linkgit:git-checkout[1]. + +checkout.workers:: + The number of parallel workers to use when updating the working tree. + The default is one, i.e. sequential execution. If set to a value less + than one, Git will use as many workers as the number of logical cores + available. This setting and `checkout.thresholdForParallelism` affect + all commands that perform checkout. E.g. checkout, clone, reset, + sparse-checkout, etc. ++ +Note: parallel checkout usually delivers better performance for repositories +located on SSDs or over NFS. For repositories on spinning disks and/or machines +with a small number of cores, the default sequential checkout often performs +better. The size and compression level of a repository might also influence how +well the parallel version performs. + +checkout.thresholdForParallelism:: + When running parallel checkout with a small number of files, the cost + of subprocess spawning and inter-process communication might outweigh + the parallelization gains. This setting allows to define the minimum + number of files for which parallel checkout should be attempted. The + default is 100. |