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

[Peter Harris]

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.

Peter Harris