From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:35:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ls-files: fix recurse-submodules with nested submodules
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaRpAPFd8+rQUxKTmDfrQWdPGEEWGSVzstwUbj-7hRAKQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xr6zkb4kLTM-+0f5OTtt583WR_0j=NEebOdYuO3Z6h1+w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Spinning out a process is one of the big downsides of working with
> submodules in our code. Unfortunately, spinning out a process is also
> one of the biggest ways we isolate submodules, and if we wanted to do
> this "in-process" we would need to add an abstraction layer that lets
> us handle submodules in-process in some clean way.

Yeah if we had less globals and a repo struct (class) which we could
operate on, that would be bring in the abstractions that we'd need.

Stefan