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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@canonical.com>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>,
	Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: actually disable 'git_update' mode with --disable-git-update
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 15:25:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-PGNqugn-deNMJv1v49GRB=8UbhXYL3Fpko9do4+rsWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201002131130.GB2338114@redhat.com>

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 14:13, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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...

thanks
-- PMM


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-02 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200715205013.2367760-1-ddstreet@canonical.com>
     [not found] ` <20200716102213.2931209-1-ddstreet@canonical.com>
2020-07-24  9:55   ` [PATCH v2] configure: actually disable 'git_update' mode with --disable-git-update Michael Tokarev
2020-07-29 19:58     ` [PATCH] " Dan Streetman
2020-09-13 18:57       ` [PATCH resend] " Dan Streetman
2020-09-13 21:09         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-22 16:34       ` [PATCH] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-10-01  1:28         ` Dan Streetman
2020-10-02 13:11           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-10-02 14:25             ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2020-10-02 14:44               ` Rafael David Tinoco
2020-10-16 20:51             ` Dan Streetman

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