[Xcb] Are the util-common-m4 submodules relative on purpose?

[Dirk Wallenstein]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 08:03:27AM -0400, Peter Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 00:52 +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> >>
> >>  without modifying .gitsubmodules) and you may
> >> not want to use git protocol.
> >
> > Why would you not want to use a git url?
> 
> Draconian firewalls.
> 
> The git protocol is far more efficient than the dumb http protocol, so
> that's what you want to use if you can. But every time I see an open
> source project announce a git-only URL, someone comes out of the
> woodwork asking for http to be enabled.

It appears that the way to handle this normally, is:
    $> git submodule init
    ... edit URL in .git/config
    $> git submodule update

Maybe git-submodule is just missing options to change the protocol, like
    $> git submodule update --init --use-protocol=http

-- 
Cheers,
  Dirk