From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:36:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the --submodule-summary option to the diff option family
Message-ID: <7vocok21pw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4ACB22E9.3010001@web.de>

Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

>> 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.