On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > thank you so much for doing this. `git submodule` is really, really slow on Windows... > > On 2015-08-27 02:52, Stefan Beller wrote: > >> diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c >> index 4b32a3c..f11fb9c 100644 >> --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c >> +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c >> [...] >> + >> +/* >> + * Clone a submodule >> + * >> + * $1 = submodule path >> + * $2 = submodule name >> + * $3 = URL to clone >> + * $4 = reference repository to reuse (empty for independent) >> + * $5 = depth argument for shallow clones (empty for deep) > > I think this description is now safely obsolete and can be deleted: you introduced explicit options like --depth to avoid the "magic" of positional parameters. ok I'll remove that in a reroll. > >> +static int module_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> +{ >> + const char *path = NULL, *name = NULL, *url = NULL, *reference = >> NULL, *depth = NULL; > > This line is a little long ;-) fixed in reroll. > >> @@ -135,6 +290,9 @@ int cmd_submodule__helper(int argc, const char >> **argv, const char *prefix) >> if (!strcmp(argv[1], "module_name")) >> return module_name(argc - 2, argv + 2, prefix); >> >> + if (!strcmp(argv[1], "module_clone")) >> + return module_clone(argc - 1, argv + 1, prefix); >> + >> usage: >> - usage("git submodule--helper [module_list module_name]\n"); >> + usage("git submodule--helper [module_list module_name module_clone]\n"); > > Was the convention not to use ( ... | ... | ... )? git tag puts it as usage: git tag [-a | -s | -u <key-id>] I looked at other --helper (git-difftool--helper which has no help to be invoced on the command line and git-bisect--helper which doesn't have the problem as the help is clear). So I'll go with [brackets | separated | by | pipes | inside ] then, just as git-tag. > > Thanks, > Dscho -- 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