From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:37:15 GMT
Subject: Re: "submodule foreach" much slower than removed "submodule--helper --list"
Message-ID: <xmqq35bp53xg.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Y0r6iAv1OVUVYNGc@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> 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.