Re: [PATCH] configure: actually disable 'git_update' mode with --disable-git-update

[Rafael David Tinoco]

> >  Assuming you're just using git for conveniently applying local
> >  downstream patches, you don't need the git repo to exist once
> >  getting to the build stage. IOW just delete the .git dir after
> >  applying patches before running a build.
>
> ...then what do you do if the build fails and you want to
> edit/update the patch before retrying? "Blow away your .git
> tree every time you build and reconstitute it somehow later"
> doesn't seem like a very friendly thing to require...

+1. This option is disconnected with sustaining engineering reality 
IMHO: tons of interactive rebases, adding and dropping patches, 
re-orderings - so previous existing patches can allow the new ones (or 
even existing ones) to become clean cherry-picks - in between patch sets 
being worked on, bisections before continuing all this, etc.