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, 18:16 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Yeah, that's not too surprising that it's slower. It's exec-ing a bunch > of shells to do that. > ... > I'm not sure if those are exactly equivalent, either. It looks like the > old code was probably respecting submodule active markers (though in my > test repo without the submodule actually checked out, it's still > reported). There is probably room for a user-facing "git submodule list" > command, but again, I don't really know enough about the space to say > what it should report.
We could mimic "find" and make "foreach" that has no action default to an equivalent of "echo" that is done internally without forking.