On 10/20/2017 09:10 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Some users can't run a bare 'git' command, due to need for a transparent
> proxying solution such as 'tsocks'. This adds an argument to configure to
> let users specify such a thing:
> 
>   ./configure --with-git="tsocks git"
> 
> The submodule script is also updated to give the user a hint about using this
> flag, if we fail to checkout modules.

Does my hint about using 'git config url.XYZ.insteadof git://...' do the
trick without needing this patch?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Makefile                 |  4 ++--
>  configure                |  5 +++++
>  scripts/git-submodule.sh | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

> +++ b/scripts/git-submodule.sh
> @@ -3,14 +3,19 @@
>  # This code is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later.  See
>  # the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
>  
> -set -e
> -

Is the change of dropping 'set -e' and adding 'error' worth doing as an
independent patch?

>  substat=".git-submodule-status"
>  update)
> -    git submodule update --init $modules 1>/dev/null
> -    git submodule status $modules > "${substat}"
> +    $GIT submodule update --init $modules 1>/dev/null

style of whether 1> or plain > is sufficient.

But in spite of my comments, the patch looks correct. So if we agree
that we want it, you can add:

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

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