From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:17:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] all: new command used for multi-repo operations
Message-ID: <51004542.8010708@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DskoCi9Lg+HW0JeQBe4HX-bMXNHUgfrsg+DoqBN9-ntQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 23.01.2013 09:55, schrieb Duy Nguyen:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +NAME
>> +----
>> +git-all - Execute a git command in multiple repositories
> 
> I agree with Junio "git-all" is too generic.

+1

>> +static int get_repo_state()
>> +{
>> +       const char *diffidx[] = {"diff", "--quiet", "--cached", NULL};
>> +       const char *diffwd[] = {"diff", "--quiet", NULL};
>> +
>> +       if (run_command_v_opt(diffidx, RUN_GIT_CMD) != 0)
>> +               return DIRTY;
>> +       if (run_command_v_opt(diffwd, RUN_GIT_CMD) != 0)
>> +               return DIRTY;
>> +       return CLEAN;
>> +}
> 
> Perhaps we could add the subrepo's object data to the in-memory object
> database of git-all, then do the diff without launching new commands?

You could do that for the "--cached" case, but not for the plain diff.
But I think forking a "git status --porcelain -uno" and testing if it
produced any output should do the trick with a single fork.