Re: [PATCH 0/3] Convert grep to recurse in-process

Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:06:03AM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote:

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Each 'struct repository' does have its own config so we could
potentially want a config in a submodule to override some config in the
superproject.  Though for right now it may be simpler to not worry about
doing this overriding, mostly because you would only want to allow
overriding of some configuration and not all configuration.  One example
would be the number of threads allowed in grep,

[...]

I think that's probably one of the more complicated cases, and I don't
think it really needs to be done on day one.

That's fair.  Could you give an example of a simpler case?

Thanks,
Jonathan