From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:55:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] submodule: implement `module_name` as a builtin helper
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kY=jQSjJUxkznkwwupo527-nT05P_bKXy=GO=E4QjC8tQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55C25EBB.2000304@web.de>

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:
> Am 05.08.2015 um 02:04 schrieb Stefan Beller:
>>
>> The goal of this series being rewriting `git submodule update`,
>> we don't want to call out to the shell script for config lookups.
>>
>> So reimplement the lookup of the submodule name in C.
>
>
> Cool. This brings down the duration of the test suite from 3:13
> to 3:12 for me (best of three).
>
> You might wanna have a look into submodule.c: after initially
> calling gitmodules_config() one can lookup the submodule name
> in the static "config_name_for_path" string_list. If you'd add
> a public method to submodule.c which accesses that string_list
> and returns the name for the given path, you won't need your
> two new functions ... or am I missing something?

Yes I just realized there is already lots of submodule related code
written in C, so I wanted to look at that as the next step and see what
can be reused and maybe redo the patches reusing code.