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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/09/2010 06:08 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 03/09/2010 10:38 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > > 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).
>
> That's odd because Avi's the one who has historically advocated relative
> URLs.

If we also get rid of the savannah git repo, or plan to do so, I have no 
issue with reverting this patch.

Paolo