Re: [GSoC] My Git Dev Blog – Week 8

> > ... Alternatively, you could explore how other sub-commands
> > handle recursing into submodules. To me it looks like they handle it by spawning
> > a sub-process is likely the easiest approach for achieving recursion. That would
> > solve the super-prefix problem as you have observed.
>
> Yes, I was hoping I would not have to spawn a subprocess for recursing on
> update, and it does look theoretically possible--it would require changing
> a lot of of existing code to use functions taking a repository objects
> rather than assuming 'the_repository'. But since that was outside the scope
> of my project, I did it like the other implementations that spawned a new
> process for the recursion of 'update'.