On Sat, 2015-09-12 at 12:05 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi Ian > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:45:50AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 22:52 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Please take a look and let me know what you think about this > variant. > > > Most likely I've forgotten something, but I don't know what it > is. > > The submodules refer to local paths (../source/linux IIRC) rather > than > > URLs on alioth, is that on purpose? > > Relative URL references are expanded from the origin location, so > "../source/linux" based on ssh://git.debian.org/git/kernel/linux is > ssh://git.debian.org/git/kernel/source/linux.
Hrm, this didn't appear to be working for me, and it was happy once I manually cloned something into ../source/linux. Might be dependent on git version or something? > > Would it be possible to arrange for the base featureset to actually be > > in the main tree at the toplevel rather than as a submodule do you > > think? That at least would seem to be a far more natural arrangement. > > Nope, a submodule can only live within an existing tree. I meant making the base featureset part of the main tree, not a submodule. I suppose the fact that it is rebasing knackers that idea though. Ian.
