Re: [Qemu-devel] Yet another git submodule rant

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 11/08/17 11:53, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:57:21AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>
>> That automatic git submodule stuff now broke my workflow again. I
>> usually keep the git repository on my laptop and then simply rsync the
>> sources (without .git directories) to my target machine to compile it
>> there.
> 
> How about excluding all files listed in .gitignore from rsync?  Which I
> guess would be a good idea anyway because you don't want sync over the
> build artifacts to the target machine if you want compile there.  Might
> be as simple as "rsync --exclude-from .gitignore" (didn't test though).
> 
> Or syncronize using git instead of rsync.  This is what I am doing.

Me too,

$ git push --mirror host:dir

(I don't mind having to commit first.)

Thanks,
Laszlo