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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 2/3/23 12:24, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 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?

   git submodule [--quiet] sync [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]

   Synchronizes submodules' remote URL configuration setting to
   the value specified in .gitmodules. It will only affect those
   submodules which already have a URL entry in .git/config (that
   is the case when they are initialized or freshly added). This
   is useful when submodule URLs change upstream and you need to
   update your local repositories accordingly.

   If --recursive is specified, this command will recurse into the
   registered submodules, and sync any nested submodules within.