From: Matti Möll <matti.moell@opensynergy.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:01:40 GMT
Subject: Re: "submodule foreach" much slower than removed "submodule--helper --list"
Message-ID: <b5017077-720b-3085-39f0-54dc6b6fcaf6@opensynergy.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwn904sof.fsf@gitster.g>

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.

Cheers,

		Matti