> On 9 Mar 2012, Timothy Pearson stated:
>> Not quite.  I recognized some problems in GIT that could cause issues,
>> so
>> I wrote "babysitting" software that constantly combs through the GIT
>> tree,
>> making sure that all submodule references are up to date with the latest
>> code and similar housekeeping tasks.  That babysitting software can and
>> does trigger commits to the tree, and it is these fixup commits that are
>> taking a long time to carry out.
>
> Looks like that needs a bit of optimization. I can have a look at it and
> see if there's a faster way to do the same thing, if you like. (And if
> the code is publically visible.)
>
> --
> NULL && (void)

99% of the time is spent waiting for GIT to return from these commands:
'git pull'
'git reset --hard HEAD'
'git commit -a'

That last one especially eats up a lot of resources, but I have found no
other way to commit changes to a submodule reference to the parent tree.

Tim