Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use absolute URLs for .gitmodules

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
> > index dd4745e..5217ce7 100644
> > --- a/.gitmodules
> > +++ b/.gitmodules
> > @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >   [submodule "roms/vgabios"]
> >     path = roms/vgabios
> > -   url = ../vgabios.git
> > +   url = git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/
> >   [submodule "roms/seabios"]
> >     path = roms/seabios
> > -   url = ../seabios.git
> > +   url = git://git.qemu.org/seabios.git/
> >    
> 
> Relative URLs are more friendly for users of proxies.

Users of proxies can still customize their .git/config file.  This
bug caused (or contributed to) a real problem in the qemu-kvm
releases (they do not include seabios/vgabios references).

Paolo