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Is there any way to run "git submodule update" in multiple threads?

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The use case:
"git submodule update" seems to be inefficient when running sequentially on a large .gitmodules file. Assuming a git forest with over 7K gits it takes hours to complete the update (running on Windows+Cygwin)

If not supported, this feature could be a good candidate for "git submodule" enhancement.
What is your opinion or advice?

posted Sep 2, 2014 by Sonu Jindal

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