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

[Jamey Sharp]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit at t-online.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 08:03:27AM -0400, Peter Harris wrote:
>> 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

I think you're looking for the "url.<base>.insteadOf" configuration
option documented in git-config(1). I've never needed to use it myself
so I'm not sure how to format it, but it seems pretty clearly like the
right tool: "Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
start, instead, with <base>." You could set it in ~/.gitconfig and have
it apply to all your git clones at once.

The related option "url.<base>.pushInsteadOf" seems useful for projects
that publish anonymous git clone URIs, but where you always want to use
git+ssh to push.

Regarding the original question: As far as I can tell, you weren't
asking because of an actual problem with this setup, but instead because
of curiosity about the motivation for it, right Dirk? As long as the
current setup doesn't actually inconvenience anybody, I'm inclined to
leave it the way the de-facto maintainer apparently prefers it. :-)

That said, Arnaud, you will get less mail of this sort if you just use
an absolute URI, and if it were me, I'd just do it. :-)

Jamey