Re: "submodule foreach" much slower than removed "submodule--helper --list"

> On 16.10.22 00:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > If one likes the output from "submodule--helper list" so much, I
> > think your "ls-files" above should be the closest.  There seems to
> > have existed some logic to squash unmerged entries down to a single
> > one, too (git-submodule.sh in Git 2.0.0 era has a module_list shell
> > function that shows what "helper list" should be doing), though.
>
> I do actually like that submodule is hoisted out of the scripts but as a
> matter of fact it seems that the openembedded folks relied on the
> "submodule--helper list" call and with later git versions that doesn't work
> anymore.
>
> https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core/commit/6d9364e5f3535954f65cbbc694ee7933ac1d664f
>
> At the end of the day it's kinda their fault to depend on the
> submodule--helper but it does hinder adoption of new git versions for people
> using openembedded.