Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2016, #06; Mon, 28)

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>

Date

Dec 1, 2016, 00:14 UTC

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<20161201000824.GE192901@google.com>

> Oh interesting, I wonder if there is a way to not have to perform a
> chdir since taking a lock to lstat wouldn't be ideal.

I think we could rewrite is_submodule_populated to be

int is_submodule_populated_cheap_with_no_chdir(char *path)
{
    return stat(path + ".git")
}