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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Oct 15, 2022, 18:37 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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>> We could mimic "find" and make "foreach" that has no action default
>> to an equivalent of "echo" that is done internally without forking.
>
> That would be reasonable to me, though I wonder what the output format
> should be. Just name, or name/oid? Once you start having options, you
> might as well just add a separate "git submodule list" that can take
> them.

Users of "find" seem to be happy with "-print" being the default, so whatever we were doing with the internal "helper --list" would be appropriate here. Folks who want different output can feed their own action.

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