Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] Various improvements/bugfixes to submodule handling

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 07/11/17 01:30, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 10:44:01AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 06:03:55PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 3 November 2017 at 15:33, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> This short series of patches improves the reliability of the submodule
>>>> handling to cope with various dev env scenarios that have since emerged
>>>
>>> Can I ask you to write up a bit for the release notes at
>>> https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.11#Build_Information
>>> covering what users need to know about the new submodule
>>> handling, please?
>>
>> Certainly, will do that.
>>
>> Perhaps have something in the general wiki pages about building QEMU, and
>> link to it from the changelog.
> 
> I've created this now:
> 
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/GitSubmodules

This could probably also mention something like this workaround if things
do not work as expected:

git config --global --replace-all core.abbrev 8

Thanks.


> 
> and linked it from here:
> 
> https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.11#Build_Information
> 
> and a couple of other places in the wiki.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 


-- 
Alexey