From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:36:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ls-files: fix recurse-submodules with nested submodules
Message-ID: <20170413183615.GC96917@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kaRpAPFd8+rQUxKTmDfrQWdPGEEWGSVzstwUbj-7hRAKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/13, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Spinning out a process is one of the big downsides of working with
> > submodules in our code. Unfortunately, spinning out a process is also
> > one of the biggest ways we isolate submodules, and if we wanted to do
> > this "in-process" we would need to add an abstraction layer that lets
> > us handle submodules in-process in some clean way.
> 
> Yeah if we had less globals and a repo struct (class) which we could
> operate on, that would be bring in the abstractions that we'd need.

Agreed, though we're probably pretty far from that becoming a reality.
One day though!

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Brandon Williams