Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm-kmod: Use the main development tree of kvm as Linux submodule

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 10/22/2009 06:25 PM, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote:
>
>    
>>> consider that you clone kvm-kmod from your repo and
>>> then create local clones from which you do the build. If you don't
>>> happen to have /path/to/my/kvm-kmod/../kvm, then the relative
>>> submodule URL won't work, but the absolute one will.
>>>
>>>        
>> Typically you create the clones using 'git submodule init&&  git
>> submodule update', not clone them manually.
>>      
> But that refers to linux-2.6/, I suppose, while I was talking
> about kvm-kmod.
>    

Oh.  If you create local clones for kvm-kmod.git, also create local 
clones for kvm.git.  I'd expect the submodule to use the local clone 
(for example, if I don't have access to the external hosting).

> that's certainly true. I'd say it's a matter of taste, so
> I'll just add a hint about .git/config to the README and leave
> .gitmodules unmolested in the future.
>    

Relative paths are a requirement for http: access, which is needed from 
certain corporate firewalls, so it will have to stay.

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