On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 11:24:36AM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 19:47, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@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?
Aside from what's mention in other replies, the general "restore sanity" option for submodules is 'git submodule deinit --all --force' which should purge all local state / checkouts of them. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
