Re: [PULL v2 00/24] testing updates (gitlab, cirrus, docker, avocado, windows)

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 19:47, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> From the other thread:
>>
>> I think the underlying config needs updating:
>>
>>   .git/modules/tests/fp/berkeley-testfloat-3/config
>>
>> I'm surprised the git config for submodules doesn't carry the metadata.
>
> Yeah, in my local repo that I merge stuff with that file
> does still have a github URL:
> url = git://github.com/cota/berkeley-testfloat-3
>
> So I guess my questions are:
>  (1) why hasn't this been a problem up til now ?

Well this is the first time we've had to tweak testfloat since Emilio
introduced it when we first added the fp tests.

>  (2) does this mean that if I merge this then everybody will
>      need to manually go in and update this file somehow
>      to be able to pull the updated qemu master ?

It will depend on how old their checkout is. I don't know why git does
just honour the metadata in .git-submodules - maybe there is a command
line stanza to reset the origin repo of submodules?

>
> thanks
> -- PMM


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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro