Subject: [PATCH v7 03/13] hook: parse the hook.jobs config

From: Adrian Ratiu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:05:58 +0300

The hook.jobs config is a global way to set hook parallelization for
all hooks, in the sense that it is not per-event nor per-hook.

Finer-grained configs will be added in later commits which can override
it, for e.g. via a per-event type job options. Next commits will also
add to this item's documentation.

Parse hook.jobs config key in hook_config_lookup_all() and store its
value in hook_all_config_cb.jobs, then transfer it into r->jobs after
the config pass completes.

This is mostly plumbing and the cached value is not yet used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <[email-masked]>
---
 Documentation/config/hook.adoc |  4 ++++
 hook.c                         | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 repository.h                   |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config/hook.adoc b/Documentation/config/hook.adoc
index 9e78f26439..b7847f9338 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/hook.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/hook.adoc
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ hook.<friendly-name>.enabled::
 	configuration. This is particularly useful when a hook is defined
 	in a system or global config file and needs to be disabled for a
 	specific repository. See linkgit:git-hook[1].
+
+hook.jobs::
+	Specifies how many hooks can be run simultaneously during parallelized
+	hook execution. If unspecified, defaults to 1 (serial execution).
diff --git a/hook.c b/hook.c
index cc23276d27..b8cce00e57 100644
--- a/hook.c
+++ b/hook.c
@@ -123,11 +123,13 @@ struct hook_config_cache_entry {
  * commands: friendly-name to command map.
  * event_hooks: event-name to list of friendly-names map.
  * disabled_hooks: set of friendly-names with hook.<friendly-name>.enabled = false.
+ * jobs: value of the global hook.jobs key. Defaults to 0 if unset (stored in r->hook_jobs).
  */
 struct hook_all_config_cb {
 	struct strmap commands;
 	struct strmap event_hooks;
 	struct string_list disabled_hooks;
+	unsigned int jobs;
 };
 
 /* repo_config() callback that collects all hook.* configuration in one pass. */
@@ -143,6 +145,20 @@ static int hook_config_lookup_all(const char *key, const char *value,
 	if (parse_config_key(key, "hook", &name, &name_len, &subkey))
 		return 0;
 
+	/* Handle plain hook.<key> entries that have no hook name component. */
+	if (!name) {
+		if (!strcmp(subkey, "jobs") && value) {
+			unsigned int v;
+			if (!git_parse_uint(value, &v))
+				warning(_("hook.jobs must be a positive integer, ignoring: '%s'"), value);
+			else if (!v)
+				warning(_("hook.jobs must be positive, ignoring: 0"));
+			else
+				data->jobs = v;
+		}
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (!value)
 		return config_error_nonbool(key);
 
@@ -240,7 +256,7 @@ void hook_cache_clear(struct strmap *cache)
 /* Populate `cache` with the complete hook configuration */
 static void build_hook_config_map(struct repository *r, struct strmap *cache)
 {
-	struct hook_all_config_cb cb_data;
+	struct hook_all_config_cb cb_data = { 0 };
 	struct hashmap_iter iter;
 	struct strmap_entry *e;
 
@@ -248,7 +264,7 @@ static void build_hook_config_map(struct repository *r, struct strmap *cache)
 	strmap_init(&cb_data.event_hooks);
 	string_list_init_dup(&cb_data.disabled_hooks);
 
-	/* Parse all configs in one run. */
+	/* Parse all configs in one run, capturing hook.* including hook.jobs. */
 	repo_config(r, hook_config_lookup_all, &cb_data);
 
 	/* Construct the cache from parsed configs. */
@@ -292,6 +308,9 @@ static void build_hook_config_map(struct repository *r, struct strmap *cache)
 		strmap_put(cache, e->key, hooks);
 	}
 
+	if (r)
+		r->hook_jobs = cb_data.jobs;
+
 	strmap_clear(&cb_data.commands, 1);
 	string_list_clear(&cb_data.disabled_hooks, 0);
 	strmap_for_each_entry(&cb_data.event_hooks, &iter, e) {
diff --git a/repository.h b/repository.h
index 078059a6e0..58e46853d0 100644
--- a/repository.h
+++ b/repository.h
@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ struct repository {
 	 */
 	struct strmap *hook_config_cache;
 
+	/* Cached value of hook.jobs config (0 if unset, defaults to serial). */
+	unsigned int hook_jobs;
+
 	/* Configurations related to promisor remotes. */
 	char *repository_format_partial_clone;
 	struct promisor_remote_config *promisor_remote_config;
-- 
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