Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > To be honest, the whole submodule recursion thing seems a bit confusing > to me.... > So since we must accept that we can't necessarily get every intermediate > step, I wonder if we are simply better off diffing the "before" and > "after" state of a particular ref, rather than traversing. Yes, exactly my thought. It would be far cheaper to look at a single final tree and enumerate all the submodules, which would give you pessimistically the maximum set that could possibly be relevant, than running millions of pairwise diff trees. By the way, I think the submodule traversal won't hurt the correctness of the primary traversal because that happens _after_ we fetch the object stream. The submodule traversal _may_ be getting an incorrect result, though, for the same reason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html