Re: [GSoC] [PATCH 2/8] submodule--helper: remove repeated code in sync_submodule()

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:54 AM Đoàn Trần Công Danh [off-list ref] wrote:

While previous patch is definitely a refactoring, this patch add small
overhead to the system, the new code will query (then free())
git_config_get_string() and/or xgetcwd() one more time in the second
compute_submodule_clone_url()

I think the abstraction overhead is not that big, though.

Yeah, Junio made basically the same comment. So it would be nice if
the commit message could mention we are adding a very small overhead
in exchange for code simplification (10 lines removed).