Hi Stefan, On Sat, 20 May 2017, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com> wrote: > > > This is still very much in a WIP state, though it does pass all tests. What > > I'm hoping for here is to get a discussion started about the feasibility of > > a > > change like this and hopefully to get the ball rolling. Is this a > > direction we > > want to move in? Is it worth the pain? > > I would be really happy to see this series land eventually. > > The introduction of a repo object will deliver performance at a higher > level, such as > * (remarked by Ben): enabling of threading > * submodules do not need to spawn processes > * I would imagine that developer velocity will go up by having less global > state > in the long run. * avoiding really ugly hacks such as save_env_before_alias() which are even incomplete, as git_dir is not reset upon restore_env(). Ciao, Dscho
