commit 50cfed80ecc01ea4300ed4b0ea5b567f381b9421
author Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Thu May 25 12:36:28 2023 +0200
committer Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Tue Jun 06 16:30:01 2023 +0200
tree 1715b487efdf206b34131df59a7dae45325b2404
parent 47a90a51a9c24ba10c58c0cd09d2117cf9e3fde2

configure: remove --with-git= option

The scenario for which --with-git= was introduced was to use a SOCKS proxy
such as tsocks.  However, this was back in 2017 when QEMU's submodules
used the git:// protocol, and it is not as important when using the
"smart HTTP" backend; for example, neither "meson subprojects download"
nor scripts/checkpatch.pl obey the GIT environment variable.

So remove the knob, but test for the presence of git in the configure and
git-submodule.sh scripts, and suggest using --with-git-submodules=validate
+ a manual invocation of git-submodule.sh when git does not work.  Hopefully
in the future the GIT environment variable will be supported by Meson.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>