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Re: [PATCH] Add the --submodule-summary option to the diff option family

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 6, 2009, 11:36 UTC
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Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:
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>> But I really, really, really want to avoid a fork() in the common case.  I 
>> do have some users on Windows, and I do have a few submodules in that 
>> project.  Having too many fork() calls there would just give Git a bad 
>> reputation.  And it has enough of that, it does not need more.
>
> Me too thinks performance matters here. We do have a repo at my dayjob
> with more than a handful of submodules and its main target platform is
> windows ... so having that perform nicely is a win for us.
Numbers?

I'd prefer to avoid kludges that favors unsubstantiated performance argument over correctness.

Thanks.
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  1. Add the --submodule-summary option to the diff option familyJohannes Schindelin, Oct 4, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2009
  3. Johannes SixtOct 5, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2009
  5. Johannes SixtOct 5, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2009
  8. Jens LehmannOct 5, 2009
  9. Jens LehmannOct 5, 2009
  10. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinOct 5, 2009
  13. Jens LehmannOct 6, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2009
  15. Johannes SchindelinOct 6, 2009
  16. Jens LehmannOct 6, 2009
  17. Johannes SchindelinOct 6, 2009
  18. Jens LehmannOct 7, 2009
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 7, 2009
  20. Johannes SchindelinOct 7, 2009

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