On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 11:16:06AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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. 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. -Peff
