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authorVincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in>2020-11-21T18·20+0100
committerVincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in>2020-11-21T18·45+0100
commitf4609b896fac842433bd495c166d5987852a6a73 (patch)
tree95511c465c54c4f5d27e5d39ce187e2a1dd82bd3 /third_party/git/t/perf/README
parent082c006c04343a78d87b6c6ab3608c25d6213c3f (diff)
merge(3p/git): Merge git subtree at v2.29.2 r/1890
This also bumps the stable nixpkgs to 20.09 as of 2020-11-21, because
there is some breakage in the git build related to the netrc
credentials helper which someone has taken care of in nixpkgs.

The stable channel is not used for anything other than git, so this
should be fine.

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@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ You can set the following variables (also in your config.mak):
 	probably be about linux.git size for optimal results.
 	Both default to the git.git you are running from.
 
+    GIT_PERF_EXTRA
+	Boolean to enable additional tests. Most test scripts are
+	written to detect regressions between two versions of Git, and
+	the output will compare timings for individual tests between
+	those versions. Some scripts have additional tests which are not
+	run by default, that show patterns within a single version of
+	Git (e.g., performance of index-pack as the number of threads
+	changes). These can be enabled with GIT_PERF_EXTRA.
+
 You can also pass the options taken by ordinary git tests; the most
 useful one is: