From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:24:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Convert grep to recurse in-process
Message-ID: <20170712182447.GF93855@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170712181717.uj7paoz5btfv7ocz@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:06:03AM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote:

>> Each 'struct repository' does have its own config so we could
>> potentially want a config in a submodule to override some config in the
>> superproject.  Though for right now it may be simpler to not worry about
>> doing this overriding, mostly because you would only want to allow
>> overriding of some configuration and not all configuration.  One example
>> would be the number of threads allowed in grep,
[...]
> I think that's probably one of the more complicated cases, and I don't
> think it really needs to be done on day one.

That's fair.  Could you give an example of a simpler case?

Thanks,
Jonathan