Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] Add SLOF-based partition firmware for pSeries machine, allowing more boot options

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/28/2011 08:08 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > It depends on how often the code changes.  If it changes regularly and qemu is 
> > expected to take in newer versions, then we need to record which slof version 
> > comes with which qemu version.  Submodules do just that.
> A commit id / tag in the README document it pretty well, no? Also, a README 
> file is human readable. Submodules don't really buy anyone anything.

When I do a release, I do the equivalent of:

git submodule update --init
rm -rf roms/*/.git
rm -rf .git

Having the information is submodules makes this process automated and 
repeatable.

The main motivation is that we need to ship source for any binary we 
include in our tarball.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori